Description: Further DetailsTitle: Banjo Roots and BranchesCondition: NewISBN-10: 0252041941EAN: 9780252041945ISBN: 9780252041945Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/15/2018Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 28mmContributor: Robert B Winans (Contributions by), Nick Bamber (Contributions by), Tony Thomas (Contributions by), Chuck Levy (Contributions by), Robert B Winans (Edited by), Jim Dalton (Contributions by), Shlomo Pestcoe (Contributions by), Saskia Willaert (Contributions by), Greg C Adams (Contributions by), George R Gibson (Contributions by), Pete Ross (Contributions by)Genre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Music in American LifeItem Weight: 708gAuthor: Robert B WinansRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Banjo Roots and Branches
Title: Banjo Roots and Branches
ISBN-10: 0252041941
EAN: 9780252041945
ISBN: 9780252041945
Release Date: 08/15/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Pete Ross (Contributions by)
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Banjo Roots and Branches
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Printed Music / Guitar & Fretted Instruments, Printed Music / Strings, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Ethnomusicology, Ethnic, Musical Instruments / General
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Music
Author: George R. Gibson
Series: Music in American Life Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
