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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Music in American Life Series
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Music in American life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Editor's Introduction; Part I: Setting the Scene; 1. Banjo Roots Research: Changing Perspectives on the Banjo's African American Origins and West African Heritage; Part II: Exploring the African Roots; 2. Banjo Ancestors: West African Plucked Spike Lutes; 3. List of West African Plucked Spike Lutes; 4. Searching for Gourd Lutes in the Bijago Islands of Guinea-Bissau; 5. Interviews with Ekona Diatta and Sana Ndiaye, Master Musicians Playing within Traditional and Contemporary Commercial Contexts. |
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6. The Down-Stroke Connection: Comparing Techniques Between the Jola Ekonting and the Five-String BanjoPart III: Into the New World-Caribbean Developments; 7. "Strum Strumps" and "Sheepskin" Guitars: The Early Gourd Banjo and Clues to its West African Roots in the Seventeenth-Century Circum-Caribbean; 8. "Finding" the Haitian Banza; 9. The Haitian Banza and the American Banjo Lineage; Part IV: Into North America-Early Banjo Sightings; 10. Zenger's "Banger": Contextualizing the Banjo in Early New York City, 1736. |
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11. The Banjar Pictured: The Depiction of the African American Early Gourd Banjo in The Old Plantation, South Carolina, 1780s12. Black Musicians in Eighteenth-Century America: Evidence from Runaway Slave Advertisements; 13. Mapping Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Citations of Banjo Playing, 1736-1840; Part V: Inquiries into White and Black Banjo in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America; 14. Black Banjo, Fiddle, and Dance in Kentucky and the Amalgamation of African American and Anglo-American Folk Music; 15. The Changing Intonational Practice of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Banjo. |
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16. Gus Cannon-"The Colored Champion Banjo Pugilist of the World" and the Big World of the Banjo17. Defining a Regional Banjo Style: "Old Country Style" Banjo or Piedmont Two-Finger Picking; Contributors; Index; Illustrations. |
| Summary |
"The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In 'Banjo Roots and Branches', Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, 'Banjo Roots and Branches' offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Banjo -- History.
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Banjo. |
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History. |
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Lute -- Africa -- History.
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Lute. |
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Africa. |
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Winans, Robert B., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Banjo roots and branches. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] 9780252041945 (DLC) 2017060726 (OCoLC)1007925547 |
| ISBN |
0252050649 (electronic book) |
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9780252050640 (electronic book) |
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9780252041945 |
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0252041941 |
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9780252083600 |
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0252083601 |
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