{"id":438,"date":"2025-12-01T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/?page_id=438"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:33:06","slug":"black-banjo-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/?page_id=438","title":{"rendered":"Black Banjo Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is an ongoing movement known as the \u201cBlack Banjo Renaissance\u201d, which strives to reconstruct views on the banjo. Artists and researchers are working to preserve the history of the American Banjo, reintegrating its value in the counter-plantation system as a freedom technology. Through music from the archives, artists create community and work for political advocacy (Blout 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this page we have linked songs by popular Black artists that were featured in our documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dom Flemons - In the Jailhouse Now\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8s8qNsuL2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rhiannon Giddens: &quot;Julie&quot; (original)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYuqnUs9gP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amythyst Kiah - &quot;Darling Cora&quot;\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ovzdZLXWnIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Sources<\/summary>\n<p>\u201cDon Flemmons &#8211; In the Jailhouse Now\u201d <em>Don Flemmons<\/em> October 15, 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/riverview\/relatedvideo?q=don+flemmons+in+the+jailhouse+now&amp;mid=774ECB8E92CACFA54083774ECB8E92CACFA54083&amp;FORM=VIRE\">https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/riverview\/relatedvideo?q=don+flemmons+in+the+jailhouse+now&amp;mid=774ECB8E92CACFA54083774ECB8E92CACFA54083&amp;FORM=VIRE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRhiannon Giddens Julie \u201d <em>Macfoto<\/em> February 11, 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/riverview\/relatedvideo?q=rhiannon+giddens+julie&amp;mid=1FAF696D83D9CB75FED81FAF696D83D9CB75FED8&amp;FORM=VIRE\">https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/riverview\/relatedvideo?q=rhiannon+giddens+julie&amp;mid=1FAF696D83D9CB75FED81FAF696D83D9CB75FED8&amp;FORM=VIRE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmythyst Kiah &#8211; Darling Cora\u201d July 5, 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ovzdZLXWnIg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ovzdZLXWnIg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhiannon Giddens &amp; Justin Robinson &#8211; John Henry <em>Rhiannon Giddens &amp; Nonesuch Records<\/em> April 16, 2025<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/riverview\/relatedvideo?q=rhiannon+giddens+and+justin+robinson&amp;mid=CD59BEDB430416F81323CD59BEDB430416F81323&amp;FORM=VIRE\">https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/riverview\/relatedvideo?q=rhiannon+giddens+and+justin+robinson&amp;mid=CD59BEDB430416F81323CD59BEDB430416F81323&amp;FORM=VIRE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rhiannon Giddens: &quot;Julie&quot; (original)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYuqnUs9gP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rhiannon Giddens: &quot;Julie&quot; (original)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYuqnUs9gP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing movement known as the \u201cBlack Banjo Renaissance\u201d, which strives to reconstruct views on the banjo. Artists and researchers are working to preserve the history of the American Banjo, reintegrating its value in the counter-plantation system as a freedom technology. Through music from the archives, artists create community and work for political &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/?page_id=438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Banjo Renaissance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/americanbanjo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}