Monday, November 21, 2011

Give Me the Banjo

documentary

Interesting history of America's only indigenous musical instrument. Brought here by slaves, used widely in minstrel shows during the nineteenth century it has moved to the mainstream with the revival of folk music in the 1920's.

I love the sound of finger-picking but after 1 1/2 hours of extremely rapid arpeggios I began to yearn for something a little slower. Still, this was a nice production and well worth the time.

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