Question
Musician and scholar Daniel Jatta proposed the akonting as a likely ancestor of this modern instrument based on a similar playing style and shared features like a full-spike neck and M-shaped bridge. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this string instrument that developed from West African instruments brought to the Americas by enslaved peoples. Its predominant use by African Americans spurred its popularity in minstrel shows.
ANSWER: banjo
[10m] The akonting’s o’teck strumming technique is similar to this modern banjo playing style. This style uses a “bum-ditty” strum pattern and is contrasted with the three-finger style pioneered by Earl Scruggs.
ANSWER: clawhammer [or frailing or down-picking or overhand]
[10h] This composer’s piano piece The Banjo is believed to document missing stylistic links between West African plucked lute and modern banjo playing. This composer also wrote Bamboula and La savane.
ANSWER: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
<EG, Auditory Fine Arts>
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