The Banjo : America's African Instrument / Laurent Dubois.
Dubois, Laurent, author.
2016
ML1015.B3 D83 2016
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Title
The Banjo : America's African Instrument / Laurent Dubois.
Author
Dubois, Laurent, author.
ISBN
9780674968813
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968813
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (384 p.) : 20 halftones
Item Number
10.4159/9780674968813 doi
Call Number
ML1015.B3 D83 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
787.881909
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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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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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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