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Hands Up Eight & Don’t be Late: The Frolic Music of Joe and Odell Thompson

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35904
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Important contributions of African banjo tradition influenced Southern music in the genre of lively lyric and rhythmically complex, banjo songs and in the old-time string band tradition—an ensemble that honors democratic interaction and the synthesis between the Celtic-American fiddle and the African American banjo traditions.
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