List Articles & Blogs

11 Important Black Folk Music Artists

A Part of My Story as a Bluegrass Musician

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

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

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

Bluegrass, string music deeply rooted in African-American tradition

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

Bringing The Banjo From 'Africa To Appalachia'

Charley Pride's Big, Black, Country Cojones

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

Crossing Country - by John Morthland

Deford Bailey A Legend Lost

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

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

Instrument Interview: The Creole Bania, the Oldest Existing Banjo

James Allen Bland

My Banjo Journey (Oteil Burbridge)

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

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

Otis Taylor – Recapturing The Banjo

Photo Essay - The Banjo and African American Musical Culture

Race And Country Music Then And Now

Rural Black String Band Music by Charles Wolfe

The Banjo's African American Heritage

The African musical influence in the world of bluegrass music

The Banjo, the 1800s and the Blues

The Banjo: African Echoes

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

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

The Reunion Band

Twang Is Not a Color

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

Yee Haw! The Rise of Black Country