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The Banjo America’s African Instrument ~ The Banjo America’s African Instrument is a rich original view of our sonic landscape It is impossible to follow Dubois’s trail without a smile and the satisfaction of hearing the world anew”―Ira Berlin author of Generations of Captivity A History of African American Slaves
The Banjo Americas African Instrument Bluegrass Today ~ Laurent Dubois says he thinks of his new book The Banjo – America’s African Instrument as a biography of the banjo Tracing this uniquely American instrument from its West African roots through its emergence in the folk and popular music of the Caribbean islands and the Southeastern United States
The Banjo — Laurent Dubois Harvard University Press ~ American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carvedout gourds covered with animal skin Providing a sense of rootedness solidarity and consolation banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today Laurent Dubois shows
The Banjo America’s African Instrument by Laurent DuBois ~ Laurent DuBois Belknap Press 2016 A banjo is an instrument that produces a sound formed by strings over skin That is the defining feature of the array of African predecessors the distinguishing mark breaking off the hereditary line from some prehistoric urstring instrument
Chronicling “America’s African Instrument” Laurent Dubois ~ In The Banjo America’s African Instrument Harvard Univ Press 2016 Laurent Dubois weaves a narrative of how this instrument was created by enslaved Africans in the midst of bondage in the Caribbean and Americas He documents its journey from 17th and 18thcentury plantations to 19thcentury minstrel shows to the bluegrass of Appalachia to the folk revival of the mid20th century
Review Laurent Dubois The Banjo Americas African ~ The banjo like instruments found in Japan India the Middle East China and Africa employs a membrane stretched over a resonating chamber What Dubois means by this subtitle is explained early in this fine expertly researched book
The Banjos African American Heritage African American ~ Since Caribbean Blacks created the banjo in the 17th century and carried it to North America in the 18th century the banjo has been part of African American heritage An African New World combination of European and African elements early banjos resembled plucked full spike folk lutes like the akonting of Gambia Senegal and GuineaBissau and the bunchundo of Gambia and GuineaBissau
Banjo Wikipedia ~ The banjo is a four five or six stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator The membrane is typically circular and usually made of plastic or occasionally animal skin Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by AfroAmericans in the United States adapted from African instruments of similar design
A Brief History of the Banjo Americas Oldest Reverb News ~ The banjo an instrument with roots in Africa and many other parts of the world has played a vital and volatile role in America’s musical history It’s found a home in the parlors of the wealthy and on the porches of the destitute
The Banjos Roots Reconsidered NPR ~ The ngoni and xalam are instruments typically played by griots — praise singers who enjoy special status in many West African tribes Adams says the akonting is a folk instrument played not by griots but by ordinary people in the Jola tribe In terms of which tradition has the most direct connection to the banjo
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