Did the Kora, the Kalimba(Mbira), Seperewa and Balafon, also traveled to North America?

[EdJo]

I would love to get some help from you guys. I am doing some research, on the African instruments that traveled to North America, and i don't find that much about the Kora, Balafon and the Kalimba...

Those 3 instruments, are like my favorite African instruments.

Kora is just


Kalimba-Tech music fusion


The dude is really good


Cacs are the main users of Mbira now...Just look around youtube...




Seperewa


Amazing balafon music show...

 

[EdJo]

Now, i know that a similar instrument to Kalimba, went to Latin America, and it is called Marimbula now.

I also know that the Banjo and Seperewa traveled to Suriname and Jamaica.

Suriname Maroons Stringed Instruments From Africa, Banjo History, Bania, Agwado, Bolon

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

The Banjo came to the US...cacs use it to make country music now but won't acknowledge it as an African instrument.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

The Kora is my favorite African instrument.

 

[EdJo]

The Banjo came to the US...cacs use it to make country music now but won't acknowledge it as an African instrument.

Yeah i know about the banjo in USA. And, from what i was reading, it looks like the earliest jazz songs, were made with banjo, and only later the guitar was adopted.

https://academy.jazz.org/the-banjo-in-jazz/

Funny, i feel that the bass from the guitar, was adopted from the diddley bow...

 

[JahFocus CS]

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[Skooby]

The Banjo came to the US...cacs use it to make country music now but won't acknowledge it as an African instrument.

Damn, I never knew this until now.

 

[Samori Toure]

Damn, I never knew this until now.

Yup Thomas Jefferson wrote about an instrument that the slaves were playing called the banjar.
PBS - American Roots Music : Instruments and Innovations - The Banjo

Those rednecks around the slave plantations heard it being played by the slaves and then they started playing it after they were trained by the slaves on how to play it.

There is very little American music that is not from the slaves. The biggest contributors to American mucis are the Mande people who are from the Kingdom of Mali. The English focused on capturing that group as slaves, because of that groups knowledge of rice cultivation. The Mande and other the other ethnic groups around their kingdoms contributed to the Blues coming to the the USA. The Blues gave rise to Country music; Western music; Bluegrass music; Rock and Roll; Jazz; Gospel; Soul; Rap, Pop, etc.

I am surprised that no one in this thread mentioned that one of the major instruments introduced to the Americas by the Africans were drums. One of the major groups to use them were the Akan people, but the White slave owners banned them. When the drums found resurgence in the Americas, people conveniently lost track of the fact that the slaves brought them.

BBC - A History of the World - Object : Akan drum
America's Cultural Roots Traced to Enslaved African Ancestors
NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience: Education, Arts, & Culture | PBS
FOR AFRICAN SLAVES, DRUMS ‘POWERFUL SYMBOL’ OF FREEDOM LOST, STRUGGLE TO REGAIN IT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT HEADQUARTERS EXHIBIT | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

 

[EdJo]

Yup Thomas Jefferson wrote about an instrument that the slaves were playing called the banjar.
PBS - American Roots Music : Instruments and Innovations - The Banjo

Those rednecks around the slave plantations heard it being played by the slaves and then they started playing it after they were trained by the slaves on how to play it.

There is very little American music that is not from the slaves. The biggest contributors to American mucis are the Mande people who are from the Kingdom of Mali. The English focused on capturing that group as slaves, because of that groups knowledge of rice cultivation. The Mande and other the other ethnic groups around their kingdoms contributed to the Blues coming to the the USA. The Blues gave rise to Country music; Western music; Bluegrass music; Rock and Roll; Jazz; Gospel; Soul; Rap, Pop, etc.

I am surprised that no one in this thread mentioned that one of the major instruments introduced to the Americas by the Africans were drums. One of the major groups to use them were the Akan people, but the White slave owners banned them. When the drums found resurgence in the Americas, people conveniently lost track of the fact that the slaves brought them.

BBC - A History of the World - Object : Akan drum
America's Cultural Roots Traced to Enslaved African Ancestors
NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience: Education, Arts, & Culture | PBS
FOR AFRICAN SLAVES, DRUMS ‘POWERFUL SYMBOL’ OF FREEDOM LOST, STRUGGLE TO REGAIN IT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT HEADQUARTERS EXHIBIT | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Thanks. Do you happen to have any source, that talks about the bass from the electronic guitar, and how it was influenced by or stolen from the diddley bow?

Enslaved africans came here with the diddley bow, and i don't find European instruments that produce the same sound.

 

[Samori Toure]

Thanks. Do you happen to have any source, that talks about the bass from the electronic guitar, and how it was influenced by or stolen from the diddley bow?

Enslaved africans came here with the diddley bow, and i don't find European instruments that produce the same sound.

I don't know if you are going to find that information, because White people lie about stuff when they learn that an invention came from Black people.

All I know is that the steel guitar was created by African Americans in the Black Pentecostal Church. The weirdest part is that the only people that use it today are White Country musicians and Hawaiian musicians.
Robert Randolph, Man of Sacred Steel
Georgia Steel Guitar Association


You might want to check to see if the diddley bow has a connection to the slide guitar.

 

[JahFocus CS]

Was revisiting this thread and thought it deserved a bump