VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER

Instruments: Traveling Strings

Episode Summary

The inaugural episode of the new podcast is out and our hosts have a conversation about two instruments and their travels: the Irish bouzouki and the Appalachian 5-string banjo—two instruments, or ideas of instruments, which emerge from the connections and collisions between people, places, musics, events, and ideas. VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER, hosted by Chris Smith and Roger Landes, with funding from the Texas Tech University Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Join Roger and Chris as they range across the centuries and around the worlds of oral-tradition music and dance, with guests along the way!

Episode Notes

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Sandy Boys, played on the 5 string, claw hammer banjo.

Part I, Drumming on the Strings: Historical Meetings and the 5-string Banjo - 01:02  

Transition/Bridge - 18:53

• Tune called Sir Thomas Leixlip, the Proud (as Roger knows it), also known traditionally as The Humours of Glynn, played on the Irish Bouzouki.

Part II, The Bouzouki - 19:38

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