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.
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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