An edition of African banjo echoes in Appalachia (1995)

African banjo echoes in Appalachia

a study of folk traditions

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An edition of African banjo echoes in Appalachia (1995)

African banjo echoes in Appalachia

a study of folk traditions

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394

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African banjo echoes in Appalachia: a study of folk traditions
1995, University of Tennessee Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Griots of piedmont North Carolina and portrait of songster Will Baldwin
Signifying at the crossroads : African-American traditions of the folk banjo
The ritual of minstrelsy : some were buffoons, but others were apprentices
Mountain echoes of the African banjo
The banjo : its changing form, construction, and use
The transmission of playing methods and tunings
The banjo song genre : Dink Roberts' man-against-the-law songs
Garfield : man against the law, but a man with a community
Conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-368) and index.

Published in
Knoxville
Series
Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series, Publications of the American Folklore Society.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
787.8/8/08996073075
Library of Congress
ML3556 .C667 1995, ML3556.C667 1995

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Pagination
xxviii, 394 p. :
Number of pages
394

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Open Library
OL1094319M
Internet Archive
africanbanjoecho0000conw
ISBN 10
0870498932
LCCN
94018762
OCLC/WorldCat
31707441
Library Thing
581606
Goodreads
2478559

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