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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…
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…
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…
