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Interview with self-taught violinist and vocalist Sudan Archives.

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/violinist-and-vocalist-sudan-archives-on-staying-connected-to-community/

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Screenshot of a portion of the linked interview:

Question, highlighted in bold: Do you feel like doing the series where you educate people and learning about all of these instruments and their histories, do you feel like that’s impacted how you make music or you as an artist?

Answer: Yeah, because basically in those videos I talk about that. I talk about this African violin, well, this Ghanaian violin. It’s basically kind of like an ancestor to the violin.

Seeing Africans play gave me representation for me to keep playing violin. Because I was like, “Oh, this violin is not just this white thing that I randomly just did and I’m an enigma.” This is something that’s been in my African DNA for a long time because I’m African-American.

So that makes sense that I’m playing the fiddle. Slaves played the fiddle and Africans played it. It’s just like to see the connection of it, it made me feel more comfortable just breaking the boundaries of the Western views of the violin. Because I’m like, it’s not just that. It’s so many more faces.

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