Music culture of banjo

Like the legendary African-American music culture, the story of banjo itself has long been integrated into the American music culture tradition. European colonists and African slaves played banjo for a long time. The banjo with five strings has simply become the endorsement of American immigrant music culture. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, thousands of banjo musicians joined the northern and southern armies. In order to boost the morale of the army, banjo musicians teach soldiers to play banjo in the army. The best example is the movie "Andersonville" (Andersonville is located in a village in central Georgia. During the Civil War, more than 65,438+02,000 soldiers died in this notorious Confederate prison. The story of banjo player Martin teaching a prisoner how to play banjo vividly reproduces that history. During the civil war, every army had its own banjo player. After each battle, the banjo is the highest reward for the fallen soldiers.