Extra: Ranky Tanky: Live in Studio 360

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Charleston band Ranky Tanky draws on the musical traditions of the Gullah culture from the Lowcountry region of the Southeastern U.S. They perform live in Studio 360 and then break the music down into its essential components, explaining what exactly makes this “Gullah” and how that cultural heritage has informed American jazz.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:07.0	I'm Kurt Anderson, and this is the Studio 360 podcast.
0:31.3	This is Ranky-Tenky, who are a five-piece band that came to be just a few years ago in Charleston, South Carolina, building on the music of the regional black Gola culture.
0:32.9	They're performing freedom.
0:35.1	Take our homes.
0:40.3	They take our names. They sit behind for walls, so we'll remain.
0:42.3	Take our dreams, they pull us apart.
0:47.3	They'll never know our strength, they'll never know our hearts.
0:51.3	We want freedom, We want freedom.
0:55.0	We want freedom.
0:58.0	We want freedom.
1:01.0	We want freedom.
1:06.0	We want freedom.
1:08.0	Take out bread
1:12.6	They take our schools
1:14.6	They say that our only choice
1:16.6	Is to pray their food
1:19.6	Take out land
1:21.6	Oh take our rights
1:23.6	But they never know our power
1:26.6	We're up the fight We want freedom rights but they never know our power would all defy.
1:28.3	We want freedom.
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