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Title The librarian and the banjo / film by Jim Carrier.

Publication Info. [Madison, Wis.] : Jim Carrier Films, [2013]
©2013

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 Talbott Media  DVD 648    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Performer Dena J. Epstein, Suzanne Epstein, Suzanne Flandreau, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Bela Fleck, Eric Weissberg, Tony Trischka.
Note Includes an additional 40 minutes of bonus material.
Summary The story of music librarian Dena Epstein, who labored 25 years to document the musical of contribution of African slaves to the New World. Her work proved that the banjo was a slave instrument, and sparked a revival of black string band music.
Contents Bonus material: How the minstrel banjo reveals slave styles / Bob Winas -- The gourd banjo revival / Scott Didlake, Clarke Buehling and Pete Ross -- A new generation of black musicians learns the banjo in Oakland -- Filming outtakes of banjos, libraries, music and more.
Subject Epstein, Dena J., 1916-2013.
Epstein, Dena J., 1916-2013.
Banjo -- United States -- History.
Banjo.
United States.
History.
Music librarians -- Biography.
Music librarians.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music.
String band music -- United States -- History and criticism.
String band music.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Biographical films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Biographies.
Added Author Epstein, Dena J., 1916-2013.
Carrier, Jim, 1944-
Fleck, Béla, 1958-
Epstein, Suzanne.
Flandreau, Suzanne.
Weissberg, Eric.
Trischka, Tony, 1949-
Jim Carrier Films.
Carolina Chocolate Drops (Musical group)