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African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions

Title: African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions / Cecelia Conway.
Author: Conway, Cecelia.
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.

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Description

xxviii, 394 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series

Uniform Title

Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JNE 96-24

ISBN

0870498932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0870498924 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

94018762 /MN

OCLC

31707441

Author

Conway, Cecelia.

Title

African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions / Cecelia Conway.

Imprint

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series

Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

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

Research Call Number

JNE 96-24

Sc E 99-18

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