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Kristina R. Gaddy

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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

Kristina R. Gaddy

Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo

Rhiannon Giddens, Kristina R. Gaddy

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Harp and banjos.

Rhiannon Giddens and Kristina Gaddy “Go Back and Fetch It”

The pair’s new book recovers the sound of early Black music.

by Rhiannon Giddens, Kristina R. Gaddy, Christian Leus via Oxford American on September 16, 2025

1859 painting "Negro Life in the South," with enslaved people in a courtyard.

How An Abolitionist Painting Set In D.C. Became Proslavery Propaganda

An 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson depicted enslaved people in a D.C. courtyard. Intended to humanize them, it was coopted by slavery defenders.

by Kristina R. Gaddy via Retropolis on December 17, 2022

Diorama of a cluster of houses and people along a waterfront, with a ship in the foreground.

On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo

The banjo did not exist before it was created by the hands of enslaved people in the New World.

by Kristina R. Gaddy via Literary Hub on October 24, 2022

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