Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

It establishes Drew as a cosmopolitan, upper-middle-class consumer immersed in modern, twentieth-century mass music and culture ... the banjo to tell different stories about America. They are ...

Just miles from the snow-glistening Rockies — the mountains often revered in the tunes of folk and bluegrass — twanging ...