Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler
past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an
unusual crossroads "asked to meet the modern musician's needs while
retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's
sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops
and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders
practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion
in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of
banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a
specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of
instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and
many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past
undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along
the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the
music's appeal and its making.
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