Thread by @Silpayamanant

This paragraph in Dr. DjeDje's interview says so much, and am really looking forward to her book African American fiddling! The three or four paragraphs after this one (about half way through the interview) are dense with rich implications for the history of Black musicking! 1/

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1322322087156109312

"The result is that when blacks did not hear themselves playing the fiddle in the media, many turned to other instruments (i.e., guitar) & musical genres (blues & jazz instead of old time & country)."

Curious how she frames that in relation to Blues & the violin-amping issue! 2/

Of course that connection to history of string playing and rise of Islam in Western Africa and the connection of those two things and the Blues with our growing understanding that it's now estimated that up to a third of African slaves were Muslim. 3/

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1306713882250145799

And how excited I am to get into the West African Arabic Literature portion of my Arabic #MusicTheory Bibliography with the hopes of finding works written in body of literature post 10th century! 4/

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1321828226721828864

And of course how all of Dr. DjeDje's research into African and African American Fiddling traditions relates to @DrMaDMo's Blacksound and how all of this is might change our evolving and (hopefully) more inclusive understanding of early American Music History! 5/end

Read Dr. DjeDje’s “The (Mis)Representation of African American Music: The Role of the Fiddle”!

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1322365345148112896