tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27292414607388141562011-09-20T05:58:49.552-04:00Thoughts, perspectives, and cracking wise....Shlomo Pestcoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15964285741075417779noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2729241460738814156.post-91912371907367785432007-07-20T08:56:00.001-04:002011-05-05T03:49:42.746-04:00

The banjo-- America's quintessential folk instrument-- can trace its origins to the gourd-bodied, fretless plucked lutes first created by enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Caribbean back in the 17th century. It was originally a principal folk instrument of the New World's African Diaspora, exclusive to black vernacular musicians. It's not until the 1830s that we begin to see reports

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