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GraffitiTavern t1_j431tbq wrote

Huh, weird. "America's oldest popular music sound" originated in the 40s, and is largely a postwar style, newer than jazz and country, certainly not heard on Jefferson's plantation(not that it would be a selling point anyway)

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xRarex0nex t1_j440jdh wrote

That's what I clicked in to say, marketing's a hell of a drug

Maybe because the banjo itself was played on plantations?

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