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Banjo Roots and Branches (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Buch 57 von 85: Music in American Life
 
9780252083600: Banjo Roots and Branches (Music in American Life)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252083601 ISBN 13: 9780252083600
Verlag: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252083601
ISBN 13 
9780252083600
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
360
Herausgeber
Winans Robert B.
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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4831 GR
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