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Why this instrument explains Black American folk music
Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 Famous Firsts Achieved By Women | Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pioneers in their own right, these aren't the first women to achieve a milestone, they were just first. #EB100Women #WomensHistoryMonth 1. Ada Lovelace: World’s First Computer Programmer (1843) 2. Zora Neale Hurston: First Anthropologic...
PBS
How American Culture Changed the Zombie
After the Haitian Revolution, Vodou evolved in the United States, blending West African, indigenous, and European traditions, which French slave owners brought over. By the 20th century, Vodou and zombies became intertwined with American...
Crash Course
Monsters. They're Us, Man: Crash Course World Mythology #36
A wendigo is a man-eating, yellow-eyed ogre from Canadian folklore that puts all other monsters to shame. Viewers discover the terrifying creature, and many others, in the 36th video of the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology series....
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Ashey Bryan
Ashley Bryan uses painting, poetry, music, collage, and prose to tell his stories. Bryan is known for retelling African folktales in a distinct, rhythmic prose that is heavily influenced by African-American poetry. Watch the interview to...