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By Jaha Nailah Avery ·Updated May 29, 2025
Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African American tradition. Banjo history has since been colonized
Author: Shelby Stewart
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