The banjo : America's African instrument /
"The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound--strings humming over skin--that has eased souls and electrified crowds for centuries. The Banjo invites us to hear that sound afresh in a biography of one of America's iconic folk instruments....
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Sounding Africa
- The first African instrument
- Three leaves
- The sound of freedom
- The banjo meets blackface
- Rings like silver, shines like gold
- Black banjo
- Sounding America.
