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(0)Rhiannon Giddens
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America's musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation's...
Author
Publisher
Nonesuch Records
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rhiannon Giddens's latest album was recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Produced by Joe Henry and tracked over an intensely productive five day period in Dublin, Ireland, the album is at once a condemnation of 'othering' and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.
Author
Publisher
Nonesuch Records
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rhiannon Giddens' album They're Calling Me Home was recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland. The two expats found themselves drawn to and comforted by the music of their native and adoptive countries of America, Italy, and Ireland, which they recorded at a spare studio on a working farm outside of Dublin. The result is a twelve-song album that speaks to the longing for the comfort of home...
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Publisher
Electro Magnetic/Harvest Records
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Elvis Costello, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens, Dawes's Taylor Goldsmith, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, and Mumford & Sons' Marcus Mumford joined together to create music for the long-lost lyrics of Bob Dylan written in 1967.
Publisher
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on Songs of Our Native Daughters, written...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year
Named one of the Most Memorable Music Books of the Year by No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music
"Compelling.... [R]eveals [an instrument] intimately rooted in the African diaspora and capable of expressing flights of sorrow and joy." —David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal
An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery,
17) Freedom highway
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Language
English
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Rhiannon Giddens's follow-up to her solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn, is more raw and personal with a mix of original tunes, traditional songs, and two songs from the civil rights era.
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Language
English
Description
The banjo has been an emblem of American culture for centuries, yet few realize the instrument's complicated, checkered past. Narrated by Steve Martin and featuring such banjo masters as Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck, Give Me The Banjo goes beyond the stereotypes and delves into the musical odyssey of the banjo, from its African roots to the present day. Brought to the New World by enslaved Africans, the banjo has shaped many American musical...