Rhiannon Giddens
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"An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from...
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Rhiannon Giddens's latest album was recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Produced by Joe Henry and tracked over an intensely productive five day period in Dublin, Ireland, the album is at once a condemnation of 'othering' and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.
12) Sing me home
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The companion album to the Morgan Neville documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble. This is the artists' most personal album to date with multicultural vocals, instruments, and musicians that share what their home sounds like to them. The songs included are ones that Ensemble members have written or arranged for the group over the years that celebrates cultural differences and friendships.
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"Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on Songs of Our Native Daughters / written...
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Five of music's best, Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons) joined together in 2014 to create music for the long-lost lyrics of Bob Dylan written in 1967. Forty-seven years in the making, the collaboration completed the project recording dozens of songs, twenty appearing on the deluxe album.
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A film by director Sam Jones that accompanies the album Lost on the River, released by Harvest Records in November 2014. The project focuses on sixteen sets of lyrics that were written by Bob Dylan during the legendary Basement Tapes sessions in 1967, but were only recently rediscovered. The film presents a look at the making of the "Lost on the river" album set against the backdrop of Bob Dyland and The Band's original "Basement tapes."
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The banjo has been an emblem of American culture for centuries, yet few realize the instrument's complicated, checkered past. Narrated by Steve Martin and featuring such banjo masters as Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck, goes beyond the stereotypes and delves into the musical odyssey of the banjo, from its African roots to the present day.
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"In The Banjo: Music, History, and Heritage, you will explore the history of banjo music from African spirituals to jazz club standards to activist folk numbers. Taught by acclaimed musician and MacArthur grant recipient Rhiannon Giddens, the 10 jam-packed episodes take you across time and cultures to uncover the hidden history of a sonically rich American instrument."--Publisher's website.