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That Half-Barbaric Twang - The Banjo in American Popular Culture (Paperback, Illini Books ed)
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That Half-Barbaric Twang - The Banjo in American Popular Culture (Paperback, Illini Books ed)
Series: Music in American Life
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Loot Price R591
Discovery Miles 5 910
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Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in
Africa before European-Americans adopted it. Karen Linn shows how
the banjo--despite design innovations and several modernizing
agendas--has failed to escape its image as a "half-barbaric"
instrument symbolic of antimodernism and sentimentalism. Caught in
the morass of American racial attitudes and often used to express
ambivalence toward modern industrial society, the banjo stood in
opposition to the "official" values of rationalism, modernism, and
belief in the beneficence of material progress. Linn uses popular
literature, visual arts, advertisements, film, performance
practices, instrument construction and decoration, and song lyrics
to illustrate how notions about the banjo have changed. Linn also
traces the instrument from its African origins through the 1980s,
alternating between themes of urban modernization and rural
nostalgia. She examines the banjo fad of bourgeois Northerners
during the late nineteenth century; the African-American banjo
tradition and the commercially popular cultural image of the
southern black banjo player; the banjo's use in ragtime and early
jazz; and the image of the white Southerner and mountaineer as
banjo player.
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