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The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. This book presents scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors p...

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Other Authors: Winans, Robert B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Series:Music in American life.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. This book presents 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, this book offers information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados. --
Item Description:Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780252050640
0252050649