Rhiannon Giddens and her MacArthur Fellowship: 'Genius'? She's not buying
by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
Oct 19, 2017
4 minutes
Technically speaking, she's now entitled to bragging rights as the world's first officially crowned "genius" banjo player.
The idea elicits a chuckle from Rhiannon Giddens. To be honest, she says, she isn't a fan of the "genius grant" nickname that's been widely used to describe the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship reward she has just collected from the nonprofit organization.
"I know they hate that term," she said with a laugh, reached by phone last week in Cape Breton, Canada, the morning the foundation revealed the names of about two dozen recipients of the 2017 fellowships. The award includes a $625,000 grant that's paid
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