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Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option (Ethnomusicology with Portia Maultsby)

At the Purchaser’s Option: Listening for the African Diaspora in American Music

By Sing For Science

5:00 AM EST on December 7, 2022

Episode Info

  • Season3
  • Episode10
Grammy Award and Macarthur Fellowship winning artist Rhiannon Giddens talks about her collection of slave narratives, “Freedom Highways,” the origins of the banjo in Africa and the connection between African and African American music with trailblazing ethnomusicologist, Dr. Portia Maultsby.

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