It's Time to Rethink the Banjo | Sound Field

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Classroom Material
Keywords
banjo Béla Fleck Abigail Washburn Nashville Sound Field Digital Studios traditional music folk music traditional instruments musical instruments stringed instruments blue bop bluegrass jazz genre mixing African music African musical instruments picked instruments plucked instruments
Subjects
Music The Arts
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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It's Time to Rethink the Banjo | Sound Field

The banjo was, at one time, the most popular instrument in America, with tens of thousands manufactured and sold between 1910 and 1930. Nahre talks to Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn to discover the origins of the banjo as an African and Middle Eastern instrument.

Nahre travels to Nashville to learn how to play the banjo from some of the greatest banjo players in the world. Béla and Abigail show us what makes their banjo playing unique, and they also let Nahre play one of the world's largest banjos.
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PBS Learning Media

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