Banjo Roots and Branches /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.