African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions

Cecelia Conway
Bok · Engelsk · 1995

Utgitt	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , c1995
Omfang	XXVIII, 394 s. : ill.
Opplysninger	Introduction: Griots of piedmont North Carolina and portrait of songster Will Baldwin ; Signifying at the crossroads : African-American traditions of the folk banjo ; The ritual of minstrelsy : some were buffoons, but others were apprentices ; Mountain echoes of the African banjo ; The banjo : its changing form, construction, and use ; The transmission of playing methods and tunings ; The banjo song genre : Dink Roberts' man-against-the-law songs ; Garfield : man against the law, but a man with a community ; Conclusion.
Emner	Afro-Americans - Music History and criticism - Appalachian Region Banjo - Appalachian Region Folk music - History and criticism - Appalachian Region Folk songs, English - History and criticism - Appalachian Region Vis mer... Minstrel shows - Appalachian Region Afrikansk-amerikanere Banjoer Folkemusikk USA
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ISBN	9780870498930