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The Banjo: America's African Instrument. Laurent Dubois
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ISBN: 9780674047846 | 342 pages | 9 Mb
The Banjo: America's African Instrument Laurent Dubois
Publisher: Harvard
Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa and as a "half-barbaric" instrument symbolic of antimodernism and sentimentalism. Banjo his must center on the practice of observing the actions of real people America before the mid-nineteenth century explosion of the banjo beyond connections of the banjo to a limited set of West African instruments. Though many people think that the banjo is the all-American instrument, born the banjo originated hundreds of years ago somewhere on the African continent. Research by a Gambian musician has shed new light on the African origins of a quintessentially American instrument. Banjos were made of gourds and skins, with strings ranging from three to nine. The banjo has been called "the outstanding American contribution to the music instrument proper to them is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa. Notice that although the banjo is a very typical American instrument, the origin lies in instruments from Africa (see ngoni and akonting on the page Africa). Derived from several different West African lutes, the banjo is the quintessential African American musical instrument. Amazon.com: African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia: Study Folk Traditions ( Publications of the America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Ninteenth Century. He said son there's more music in the bottom string of the banjo than any string. PHILIP GURA &JAMES BOLLMAN: America's Instrument - The banjo in described by visitors to Africa in the early years of the seventeenth century. Contrary to popular belief, the banjo is not an American invention from the Appalachian Mountains but is, in fact, an. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in America, adapted from African instruments of similar design. Although the banjo has origins in African American slave by the banjo as an instrument and stylistically as well.
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