African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions

Author(s)

• Conway, Cecelia

Bibliographic Information

African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions

Cecelia Conway

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

University of Tennessee Press, c1995

• : pbk

Note

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

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA28015336
• ISBN:
  • 0870498932
• LCCN: 94018762
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Knoxville
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 394 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 764.82
  • LCC : ML3556
  • DC20 : 787.8/8/08996073075
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Music -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Folk music -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Folk songs, English -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Banjo -- Appalachian Region
  • LCSH : Minstrel shows -- Appalachian Region
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00304381