The Banjo
Laurent Dubois
Harvard University Press, 2016
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American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780674047846
- ISBN-10
- 0674047842
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2016
- Publication date
- 2016-03-14
- Pages
- 384
- Dimensions
- 165x245x35
- Weight
- 714