Gaddy documents how 19th-century white blackface minstrelsy co-opted and commercialized the instrument, largely erasing its profound African and spiritual heritage from the public consciousness . 📚 How to Safely & Legally Access This Material
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Kristina R. Gaddy traces the instrument back to the 17th and 18th centuries . She reveals that the banjo was not invented by white musicians in the American South, but by enslaved people of African descent in the Caribbean and North America . Well_of_Souls_Uncovering_the_Banjos_Hidden_Historyzip