What does a Gullah expression of West African culture sound like? The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Clay Ross and Kevin Hamilton of Ranky Tanky, a quintet from South Carolina whose soulful Gullah music draws from jazz and the sounds of the descendants of enslaved Africans in the American South.
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