The African-american Fife and drum music , still alive in north Mississippi hill counties, was a bit evoked on this forum.
I find this music really fascinating, a cane fife with 2 or 3 drums, with african, native-american and european influences, very different from the military fife music. And this rhytmic music had a lot of infuences on some blues (RL Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, North Mississippi Allstars etc) and is still played on picnics in north mississippi.
Do you like Napoleon Strickland, Ed Young, Otha Turner and his grandaughter Shardé Thomas?
Hi Bob, thanks for this great picture, and to mention the Gullah Geechee culture, with very strong west african influence. I’d love to listen to Gullah Geechee flute music.
And the picture shows there maybe was an african-american fife tradition outside north Mississippi, with african but also native american (Choctaw) influences as well.
