African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions
Cecelia Conway
Bok · Engelsk · 1995
| Utgitt | Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , c1995
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| Omfang | XXVIII, 394 s. : ill.
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| 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.
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| ISBN | 9780870498930
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