Banjo roots and branches /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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Table of Contents:
- Banjo roots research: changing perspectives on the banjo's African American origins and West African heritage / Shlomo Pestcoe and Greg C. Adams
- Banjo ancestors: West African plucked spike lutes / Shlomo Pestcoe
- List of West African plucked spike lutes / Shlomo Pestcoe and Greg C. Adams
- Searching for gourd lutes in the Bijago Islands of Guinea-Bissau / Nick Bamber
- Interviews with Ekona Diatta and Sana Ndiaye, master musicians playing within traditional and contemporary commercial contexts / Chuck Levy
- The down-stroke connection: comparing techniques between the Jola Ekonting and the five-string banjo / Greg C. Adams and Chuck Levy
- "Strum strumps" and "sheepskin" guitars: the early gourd banjo and clues to its West African roots in the seventeenth-century circum-Caribbean / Shlomo Pestcoe
- "Finding" the Haitian Banza / Saskia Willaert
- The Haitian Banza and the American banjo lineage / Pete Ross
- Zenger's "banger": contextualizing the banjo in early New York City, 1736 / Shlomo Pestcoe and Greg C. Adams
- The banjar pictured: the depiction of the African American early gourd banjo in The old plantation, South Carolina, 1780s / Shlomo Pestcoe
- Black musicians in eighteenth-century America: evidence from runaway slave advertisements / Robert B. Winans
- Mapping eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century citations of banjo playing, 1736-1840 / Robert B. Winans
- Black banjo, fiddle, and dance in Kentucky and the amalgamation of African American and Anglo-American folk music / George R. Gibson
- The changing intonational practice of mid-nineteenth-century banjo / Jim Dalton
- Gus Cannon - "The colored champion banjo pugilist of the world" and the big world of the banjo / Tony Thomas
- Defining a regional banjo style: "old country style" banjo or Piedmont two-finger picking / Robert B. Winans.