Ken Burns UNUM
Rhiannon Giddens on the Origins of Country Music
Season 2025 Episode 15 | 1m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Rhiannon Giddens on the Origins of Country Music
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Rhiannon Giddens on the Origins of Country Music
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I mean, it's there's no white South.
It's not Scandinavian.
It is a place where black and white peopl live cheek by jowl, as we say.
And the influences go back and forward.
Now we have the cultures coming together.
And whenever you have these contradictions together in the South, you have a lot of the opposites that create a richness.
I think that friction is a good way to look at the music because of this rub between white and black.
So country music come from the South because this is where slavery happened.
But now it's all over the rubber people mixing.
It starts going back and forth and it become this beautiful mix of cultures.
My mom, they met and mingled and became this edge.
But the heart spoke musically to each other.
And then somebody from the up up here says, oh, we can't have that.
You guys can't be doing stuff together.
That's what the brothers.