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Author:

Conway, Cecelia.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

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

Subject:

Afro-Americans--Appalachian Region--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Folk music--Appalachian Region--History and criticism.
Folk songs, English--Appalachian Region--History and criticism.
Banjo--Appalachian Region.
Minstrel shows--Appalachian Region.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series

ISBN:

9780870498923 (cloth : alk. paper)
0870498924 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780870498930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0870498932 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31707441

LCCN:

94018762

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)