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A Visionary’s Beat Goes on at this West Virginia Steelpan Drum Company
It takes about 40 hours of hammering to turn a steel drum into a steelpan drum. Although originally meant to…
October 27, 2021
W.Va. Campground Preserving Appalachian-Born Style Of Sacred Music That Is Quickly Being Forgotten
There’s a place in southern West Virginia that many consider holy ground. For nearly 70 years, gospel music…
November 26, 2019
Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ Does Little to Tell the Story of the Non-White, Non-Straight World of Country
When rumors began circulating among the community of country music scholars that famed documentarian Ken Burns was turning…
September 15, 2019