How an African instrument became a symbol of white country music

Karabo explains the origin story of the banjo Cocoa Butter Your destination for Black culture and entertainment. We are timely, relevant, connected, and moving at the speed of culture. Join the community. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/cocoabutter GET MORE BUZZFEED: https://www.buzzfeed.com https://www.buzzfeed.com/videos https://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedvideo https://www.youtube.com/asis https://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedmultiplayer https://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedunsolvednetwork http://youtube.com/buzzfeedceleb https://www.youtube.com/perolike https://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedviolet https://www.youtube.com/goodful https://www.youtube.com/nifty https://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedtasty https://www.youtube.com/bringme https://www.youtube.com/c/CocoaButter https://www.youtube.com/abouttoeat Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/194158 MUSIC Licensed via Audio Network STILLS 'The Old Plantation', 1800 Print Collector/Getty Images Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer Bettmann/Getty Images A Minstrel Entertainer Hulton Deutsch/Getty Images Broadstairs Minstrels Hulton Deutsch/Getty Images The 53rd Annual CMA Awards - Press Room Leah Puttkammer/Getty Images VIDEO Black and white medium shot 1930 four band members playing each other's instruments and singing Archive Films/Getty Images MS Shot of village and harbor at port royal with people walking along marina Warner Bros. Studios/Getty Images MS PAN Shot of technician removes newly printed pages from iron frame while beater spreads ink over new typesets in colonial era printing press / Williamsburg, Virginia, United States Smithsonian/Getty Images Martinique Maintains Naval Fleet Far From Nazis Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels/Getty Images Composite newspaper texture. MADDRAT/Getty Images Wagon train travels through desert / banjo playing cowboy sings / buzzard plays tune on steer skeleton Onyx Media, Llc/Getty Images Cubby Bear impersonates Al Jolson Silverwell Films/Getty Images 4K Maps Animation. World map. (Nigeria) reklamlar/Getty Images A factory worker tightens the tailpiece of a banjo. Discovery Access/Getty Images A factory worker tightens the coordinator rods of a banjo. Discovery Access/Getty Images A router cuts a groove into the body of a banjo. Discovery Access/Getty Images A factory worker assembles the neck and pot of a banjo. Discovery Access/Getty Images Put Em' Up Sony Pictures Entertainment/Getty Images The Jazz Singer Sony Pictures Entertainment/Getty Images 1946 WS dancer clogging as band plays behind him / United States Archive Films/Getty Images 1946 MS Pete Seeger playing banjo and talking about music / New York, United States Archive Films/Getty Images 1946 MONTAGE Fiddler and banjo player provide the soundtrack for square dancers Archive Films/Getty Images 1962 MONTAGE People in street in Hazard listening to locals play and sing "John Henry" / Hazard, Kentucky, United States Film Audio Services/Getty Images 1962 PAN People in street in Hazard listening to locals play and sing "John Henry" / Hazard, Kentucky, United States Film Audio Services/Getty Images https://www.youtube.com/c/cocoa-butter