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Jake Blount: Tiny Desk Concert

The EBONY HILLBILLIES' Norris Bennet explains "Frailing the Banjo"

"...Throw the Banjo Out of Tune" black banjo tune from the 1850s

"Appalachian Journey", Alan Lomax (1991)

"Black Banjo Gathering", Symposium on Affrilachia, Lexington,Kentucky

"Judge Harsh Blues" by Furry Lewis

"Walk Right In" Gus Cannon Documentary Cannon's Jug Stompers

11 Important Black Folk Music Artists

A Great American Tapestry: Radio Documentary

A Part of My Story as a Bluegrass Musician

Africa, Appalachia, and Acculturation: The History of Bluegrass Music

African Elvis brings country music to Kenya - BBC News

Allison Russell "Quasheba" on the Bang on a Can Online Marathon 6/6/21

Andrew And Jim Baxter

Arnold Shultz: Godfather of Bluegrass. 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙆𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘

B.A. Parker is learning the banjo

Banjo maker Jim Hartel on the African heritage and American history of the banjo

Basic Akonting playing by Daniel Jatta

Bernard Diedhiou - Akonting player, West Africa, Music of Senegal

Black Banjo Reclamation Project

Black Hillbilly - or - What you really know about the Upper South?

Black-and-White Duo Allerton & Alton Occupy Special Place In Country Music History

Blacks and Vaudeville

Blind James Campbell String Band "John Henry"

Bluegrass, string music deeply rooted in African-American tradition

Bones and Banjo: Confronting Cultural Appropriation | Kafari + Jake Hoffman | TEDxDirigo

BRAND NEW: How To Play Bones

Brent Williams inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame

Bringing The Banjo From 'Africa To Appalachia'

Bringing The Banjo From 'Africa To Appalachia'

Carl Johnson Banjo

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Charley Pride's Big, Black, Country Cojones

Cheick Hamala Diabate

CHRONICLING “AMERICA’S AFRICAN INSTRUMENT”: LAURENT DUBOIS ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE BANJO

Clarence Tross - Hound Chase (1960)

Contestant Plays "Bones" on Amateur Hour

Crossing Country - by John Morthland

Curtis Wright - Cruise2Jam Bluegrass/Gospel History Workshop - Carnival Inspiration 2013

Daniel Jatta Plays an Akonting Tune Written by his Father

Deford Bailey A Legend Lost

Dom Flemons: On What Happened to the Black Banjo?

Earl White, Erynn Marshall, Mark Olitsky at the Portland Old time Gathering

Ebony Hillbillies

Ekona Diatta with Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta in Kanjunka 7 20 08

Elizabeth Cotton

Episode 8 (African-American string band, fiddle & banjo traditions)

Fiddle Tune History -- Minstrel Tales: Picayune Butler and Japanese Tommy "Hunky Dory!"

First Black Female Country Singer Yolanda Diamond 1994 Inteview

From Black to White: Early Banjo History in 2 Minutes

Gourd Banjo and Hambone on a Mississippi Porch

Gourd banjo FULL BUILD with walnut and cherry burl

HARUNA UJI WAKAR SARKIN KANO ADO

How African-American Appalachian music influenced the sounds of today

How America STOLE Black Music And Made Millions Off Of US

How Black Musicians Built Country Music

How It's Made: Banjos

How Jim Crow Shaped the Music Business

Hubby Jenkins Live Performance & Interview

Instrument Interview: The Creole Bania, the Oldest Existing Banjo

Introduction to Early Banjo History by Clifton Hicks

Introduction to Early Banjo History with Clifton Hicks

James Allen Bland

James Cole String Band

Jeron "Blind Boy" Paxton

Jerron Paxton at The Ark: No More the Moon Shines on Lorena

Jimmie Strothers

Jimmy Collier Videos

Lauren discusses and plays the buchundu 7 23 08MPG

Leola Manning - The Music of the Mountains: African American Artists in Appalachia

Lewis Hairston - John Henry (1977, Traditional African American Banjo Music)

Music from Malawi, Africa, Ministryofhope.org

Musician Rhiannon Giddens on the History of the Banjo

My Banjo Journey (Oteil Burbridge)

Newport Sessions: The Silkroad Ensemble, "Our Instruments And Where They Come From"

OHR Offstage: Featuring Dom Flemons, Don Edwards & Jerron Paxton

Op-Ed: It’s Time for Country Music to Elevate Its Overlooked Black Voices

Origins - The Music of The Mountains: African American Artists in Appalachia

Otis Taylor Recapturing the Banjo

Otis Taylor – Recapturing The Banjo

Our Native Daughters "Black Myself"

Our Native Daughters - "Mama's Cryin' Long"

Our Native Daughters on Their Roots and the African American Banjo Tradition (Behind The Scenes)

Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony

Photo Essay - The Banjo and African American Musical Culture

Queen Esther: The true origins of country music

RABE MAI GURMI JIBIA WAKAR MASOYI

Race And Country Music Then And Now

Rhiannon Giddens: On the Lost History of the Black Banjo

Rhiannon Giddens’ BBC Radio 4 Series – Black Roots

Rural Black String Band Music by Charles Wolfe

Sana Ndiaye performs "Children" on the Akonting

Taylor's Kentucky Boys

The Banjo's African American Heritage

The African musical influence in the world of bluegrass music

The Banjo Bands of Malawi

The Banjo Project

The Banjo, the 1800s and the Blues

The Banjo: A History of America’s African Instrument - Folk+ 2025

The Banjo: African Echoes

The Carolina Chocolate Drops with Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson: a benefit for "Black String Revival"

The Dallas String Band

The Extinction of the Black Banjo in the United States -- 1900 - 1930

The Reunion Band

The Reunion Band

The Story Of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Untold History of Black Country Music

The Untold History of Black Country Music

THIS NASHVILLE MUSEUM SHOWS THE VITAL ROLE OF BLACK MUSIC IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Twang Is Not a Color

Uncle Homer Walker

Uncle John Scruggs

Uncovering the History of the Banjo with Rhiannon Giddens

Uncovering the History of the Banjo with Rhiannon Giddens: From African Roots to American Music

Unmasking Country Music's First Black Legend

Washington Phillips

Watcha plays "Basungouté" - Jola akonting music from Senegal

Why Black Banjo: The Black Banjo List Serve

Why Black Folks Don't Fiddle

Why These Four Banjo-Playing Women Resurrected the Songs of the Enslaved

Why this instrument explains Black American folk music

Yee Haw! The Rise of Black Country

You’re Not Alone

“Hard Times” and “Camptown Hornpipe” performed by Rhiannon Giddens