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Go back and fetch it : recovering early Black music in the Americas for fiddle and banjo / Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3556 .G24 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaddy, Kristina R., Author.
- Giddens, Rhiannon, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--19th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music--18th century--History and criticism.
- Black people--America--Music--19th century--History and criticism.
- Black people.
- Black people--America--Music--18th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Music.
- Black people--America--Music.
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- Folk music--America.
- Violin music--Scores.
- Violin music.
- Banjo music--Scores.
- Banjo music.
- Genre:
- Folk songs.
- Scores.
- Songbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 105 pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm
- music.
- Other Title:
- Recovering early Black music in the Americas for fiddle and banjo
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "For the first time, this groundbreaking songbook collaboration by music writer Kristina R. Gaddy and Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens makes twenty examples of early Black Atlantic music accessible and playable for today's musicians, music enthusiasts, and historians. Presenting music from 1687 through the 1850s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas. Immensely readable for amateurs and professionals alike, Go Back and Fetch It explains the significance of early Black Atlantic music and how the patterns of tunings, melodic lines, and lyrics shed light on the impact that Black American music has had on nineteenth-century popular music, early country, old time, and bluegrass. Each tune pairs with an engaging essay on its historical background and how the tune transformed over time, as well as information about the collector. Deeply researched and carefully approached, this essential source restores the roots of Black music to the musical canon"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Angola, Papa, and Koromanti: Jamaica, 1687-1688
- An African song or chant: Barbados, ca. 1772-1779
- A Black soldier's song: Suriname, 1770s
- Calemba and the Colymba: Jamaica, 1770s
- Pompey ran away: Virginia, 1782
- Black dance: Saint-Barthélemy, 1788
- Congo: Virginia, ca. 1790
- Aia bombaia bombé: Haiti, 1814
- Roaring river: Louisiana, 1840s
- Tárawan sa de: Suriname, 1855
- Throw the banjo out of tune: Elmira, New York, 1850-1851; and So come along: Southern United States
- Poor Rosy: South Carolina, 1862; Round the corn, Sally!: Virginia, 1860s; and Caroline: Louisiana, 1850s
- Snowden's jig: Ohio, 1850s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469690575
- 1469690578
- OCLC:
- 1512301449
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