I happened to come across a film at the Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison last week that might be of interest to some on this forum. Produced and directed by Jim Carrier and entitled "The Librarian and the Banjo", it tells the story of Dena Epstein and her efforts to, at first, uncover and compile primary resources chronicling the songs, tunes, and instruments of enslaved African-Americans, and…
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