John Jeremiah Sullivan’s profile of American folk singer, composer, and MacArthur Fellow Rihannon Giddens includes a history of the influential, but little known black antebellum fiddler Frank Johnson, as well as the 1898 racial massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means
John Jeremiah Sullivan | The New Yorker | May 13, 2019 | 9,258 words
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