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Banjo Roots and Branches (Hardcover)
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Banjo Roots and Branches (Hardcover)
Series: Music in American Life
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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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