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Banjo Roots and Branches - Couverture souple

Livre 57 sur 85: Music in American Life
 
9780252083600: Banjo Roots and Branches
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0252083601 ISBN 13 : 9780252083600
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2018

Synopsis

The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge 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, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados.

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert B. Winans is a professor emeritus of American literature and folklore at Gettysburg College.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252083601
ISBN 13 
9780252083600
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
Éditeur
Winans Robert B
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