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Subject: Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Ethnic, African American

ISBN: 9780870498930

Subject Area: Music, History

Publication Name: African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia : Study Folk Traditions

Item Length: 9.3 in

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press

Publication Year: 1995

Type: Textbook

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 1 in

Author: Cecelia Conway

Item Width: 7.6 in

Item Weight: 26.9 Oz

Number of Pages: 424 Pages

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Throughout the Upland South, the banjo has become an emblem of white mountain folk, who are generally credited with creating the short-thumb-string banjo, developing its downstroking playing styles and repertory, and spreading its influence to the national consciousness. In this groundbreaking study, however, Cecelia Conway demonstrates that these European Americans borrowed the banjo from African Americans and adapted it to their own musical culture. Like many aspects of the African-American tradition, the influence of black banjo music has been largely unrecorded and nearly forgotten--until now. Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont--among the last American representatives of an African banjo-playing tradition that spans several centuries--Conway reaches beyond the written records to reveal the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns, improvisational playing styles, and the accompanying singing and dance movements to traditional West African music performances. The author then shows how Africans had, by the mid-eighteenth century, transformed the lyrical music of the gourd banjo as they dealt with the experience of slavery in America. By the mid-nineteenth century, white southern musicians were learning the banjo playing styles of their African-American mentors and had soon created or popularized a five-string, wooden-rim banjo. Some of these white banjo players remained in the mountain hollows, but others dispersed banjo music to distant musicians and the American public through popular minstrel shows. By the turn of the century, traditional black and white musicians still shared banjo playing, and Conway shows that this exchange gave rise to a distinct and complex new genre--the banjo song. Soon, however, black banjo players put down their banjos, set their songs with increasingly assertive commentary to the guitar, and left the banjo and its story to white musicians. But the banjo still echoed at the crossroads between the West African griots, the traveling country guitar bluesmen, the banjo players of the old-time southern string bands, and eventually the bluegrass bands. The Author: Cecelia Conway is associate professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is a folklorist who teaches twentieth-century literature, including cultural perspectives, southern literature, and film.

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Publisher

University of Tennessee Press

ISBN-10

0870498932

ISBN-13

9780870498930

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777228

Product Key Features

Author

Cecelia Conway

Publication Name

African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia : Study Folk Traditions

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Subject

Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Ethnic, African American

Publication Year

1995

Type

Textbook

Subject Area

Music, History

Number of Pages

424 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9.3 in

Item Height

1 in

Item Width

7.6 in

Item Weight

26.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN

94-018762

Intended Audience

College Audience

Lc Classification Number

Ml3556.C667 1995

1995

Dewey Decimal

787.8/8/08996073075

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Illustrated

Yes

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