Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens

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WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Rhiannon Giddens trained as an opera musician. She later switched to a sound that celebrates bluegrass and folk music, sharing stories of struggle, resistance, and hope that bring attention to buried histories. Among the bands she has started are the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Our Native Daughters.

Publisher

90.9 WMPG FM

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

Musician, Activist, Actress, Black History Month

Disciplines

African American Studies | Africana Studies | African History | American Art and Architecture | American Film Studies | American Literature | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Art and Design | Children's and Young Adult Literature | Contemporary Art | Creative Writing | Cultural History | Digital Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fashion Design | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Fiction | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Fine Arts | Hip Hop Studies | History | History of Gender | History of Religion | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Intellectual History | Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Islamic World and Near East History | Labor History | Latin American History | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Literature in English, British Isles | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Modern Literature | Music | Music Performance | Nonfiction | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other Arts and Humanities | Other English Language and Literature | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Film and Media Studies | Other History | Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Other Music | Poetry | Political History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Radio | Screenwriting | Social History | United States History | Visual Studies | Women's History | Women's Studies

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