Did you know that Banjos Cant Sound Sad

With roots in Africa, the banjo is perhaps most closely associated with styles of American music like country, folk, and bluegrass, according to Smithsonian Music. Early on, banjo was also used in jazz, according to Banjology from Duke University. Like all genres of music, there are sad and happy songs written in all four of those styles, and many examples of each type of music feature the banjo. More often than not, though, banjos are associated with happy music written for celebration and dancing. Could that link between happy energy and the banjo have something to do with the instrument itself, or could there be something about the banjo that makes it better suited for playing happy tunes rather than sad ones According to the Empirical Musicology Review, in 2014 two researchers from the University of Ohio State University and one from University of Virginia teamed up to find out if that might be the case. , banjo, bluegrass, guitar, pagode, music, samba, mandolin, cavaco, banjomusic, fiddle