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The Banjo : America's African Instrument / Laurent Dubois.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubois, Laurent, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Banjo music--History and criticism.
- Banjo music.
- Banjo--History.
- Banjo.
- Music--Social aspects--United States.
- Music.
- Music--United States--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.) : 20 halftones
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life, and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today, Laurent Dubois shows.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Sounding Africa
- 2. The First African Instrument
- 3. Three Leaves
- 4. The Sound of Freedom
- 5. The Banjo Meets Blackface
- 6. Rings Like Silver, Shines Like Gold
- 7. Black Banjo
- 8. Sounding America
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-96881-6
- OCLC:
- 956478923
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