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Rhiannon Giddens was on NPR's Code Switch podcast to talk with co-host B.A. Parker, who is learning to play the banjo and is looking to find community and reclaim an instrument rooted in Black culture. You can hear their conversation here.

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Rhiannon Giddens is on the latest episode of NPR's Code Switch podcast to talk with co-host B.A. Parker, who is learning to play the banjo and is looking to find community and reclaim an instrument rooted in Black culture.

"What I hear from folks in the community, in our community who are learning this music, it's not like, 'Oh, I just want to play the banjo so I can play some tunes,'" Giddens tells Parker. "It's like, there's this connection, right? There's this historical connection, there's this cultural connection, there's this ancestral connection, and that's a different thing to me."

You can hear their conversation here via NPR, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube:

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Rhiannon Giddens: NPR's 'Code Switch,' January 2025
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    Listen: Rhiannon Giddens Talks with NPR's 'Code Switch'
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    Rhiannon Giddens is on the latest episode of NPR's Code Switch podcast to talk with co-host B.A. Parker, who is learning to play the banjo and is looking to find community and reclaim an instrument rooted in Black culture.

    "What I hear from folks in the community, in our community who are learning this music, it's not like, 'Oh, I just want to play the banjo so I can play some tunes,'" Giddens tells Parker. "It's like, there's this connection, right? There's this historical connection, there's this cultural connection, there's this ancestral connection, and that's a different thing to me."

    You can hear their conversation here via NPR, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube:

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