Assertion: banjo | /r/HasProperty | ruralinstrument
Facets:
value: essentially
type: DEGREE
value: nowadays
type: TEMPORAL
value: with a rural repertoire
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: According to common stereotypes about the banjo nowadays, the banjo is an "essentially rural" instrument, with a rural repertoire which is often played by ear.
text: Indeed, the average banjoist nowadays only has a vague knowledge of what banjo playing, in the years Before Scruggs, was like; the general stereotype goes something like this: Back in the late 1800s, the banjo – an essentially rural instrument – was ripped from the hands of poor, illiterate hillbillies by evil, greedy snobs such as Samuel Swaim Stewart, who proceeded to try and make the banjo a high-class, classical instrument by re-spelling its name to “banjeau” and other such dastardly shenanigans.