• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It’s a reference to people blowing across the opening of empty/partially filled jugs to make music in jug bands, it’s an improvised instrument in USAmerican folk music along with spoons, stove pipe, washboard, washtub base, and a comb with paper.

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I always envisioned it as whitest and most vocal of the MAGA set. Typically exurban or rural. Strange bedfellows with the Silicon Valley technofeudalists.