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#Jams 🎶

This joyful expression of shared similarities across seemingly vast differences, is a major reason why my mom became an ethnomusicologist.

The world is both a bigger, and a smaller place than you think, and we have way more in common than we expect.

Just lovely.

#MusicUnites #TeachIt

Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.