Banjo Roots and Branches (Music in American Life) - Tapa dura

Libro 57 de 85: Music in American Life
 
9780252041945: Banjo Roots and Branches (Music in American Life)
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ISBN 10: 0252041941 ISBN 13: 9780252041945
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2018

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

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

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252041941
ISBN 13 
9780252041945
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
344
Editor
Winans Robert B
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9780252083600: Banjo Roots and Branches (Music in American Life)

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ISBN 10:  0252083601 ISBN 13:  9780252083600
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2018
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