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BanJew: The Secret History of the Banjo in Yiddish Music

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The mass emigration of Eastern European Jews to the United States in the late 19th Century occurred when the banjo was a dominant force in popular music. While Jews did not become involved in the older more established worlds of minstrel banjo or the later classic finger-style banjo, the newly emerging worlds of ragtime and […]