Smoky Mountain Air

Smokies Life

Smoky Mountain Air brings you the science, stories, and sounds of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hosts Valerie Polk and Karen Key interview authors, scientists, and park experts about life in the Smokies past and present. A production by Smokies Life.

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Smoky Mountain Air

Episodes (13)

Jan 17, 2025 Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music—E6: Hip-hop in the Heart of Appalachia
Oct 19, 2022 Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music—E5: Amythyst Kiah with Jack Tottle
Jul 27, 2022 Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music—E4: Dom Flemons, The American Songster

Smoky Mountain Air

Jan 17, 2025
36 minutes
25 MB

Dr. William Turner and Dr. Ted Olson talk to Geonoah Davis and Kelly Thompson, two artists whose hip-hop sounds are expanding traditional ideas about music in Appalachia. Borrowing from a generations-old African American heritage of spoken word expression, rap and hip-hop echo a long narrative tradition of African American cultural survival against all odds. These original historical elements are deeply rooted in the fabric of Appalachia, blending into the backdrop of the region's musical character yet revived and brought forward again by these fresh creative talents with their contemporary styles. Geonoah Davis, known by the...

Smoky Mountain Air

Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music—E6: Hip-hop in the Heart of Appalachia

Smokies Life

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