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The Banjo : America’s African Instrument / Laurent Dubois.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 20 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674968813
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 787.881909 23
LOC classification:
  • ML1015.B3 D83 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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