The Truth About Banjo Stereotypes

Banjo Heritage 👉   / cliftonhicks  
Clifton Hicks on the banjo's role in "hillbilly" stereotypes, the real origin of the term "redneck," and the cultural strip-mining of Southern folk music.

00:00 Why banjo players are stereotyped as "hillbillies."
01:20 Early blackface minstrel stereotypes (1830s-1840s).
02:13 Why hillbilly stereotypes persist.
04:03 English origins of "hillbilly" and "redneck."

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