Thread by @Silpayamanant

Re-reading this and thinking about it in light of Dr. Jacqueline C. DjeDje’s work researching the little known African American Fiddling traditions and all the early Blues violinist recordings that we have.

All the more reason to #CiteBlackWen @citeblackwomen

https://twitter.com/silpayamanant/status/1304338386078044160

It shouldn’t be surprising that an ethnomusicologist researching African/African American fiddling traditions and a French-Senegalese immigrant researching African Diaspora/Black Muslim Slavery would have a take on the origins of the Blues being Islamological/Afrological.

Which says a lot about the tools/background knowledge that researchers bring with them and why most American Music Studies is inherently Anglo-Eurocentric and Colonialist.

Reflist for a piece I'm working on "Islam, African American Fiddling, and the Blues"

Figured I'd try out MyBib now that it has an embed function. It's still a little quirky and doesn't deal well with books that are online as well as in print.

mybib.com/b/w8WADB

Very few of the works listed in the Reflist above are specifically about African American Fiddling, yet. I've had those separate as I hadn't considered how related that was to this topic of the relationship of the Blues to Islam (despite the numerous early Blues violinists).