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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 chang form, construction, and use -- The transmission of playing methods and tunin -- The banjo song genre : Dink Roberts' man-against-the-law songs -- Garfiel man against the law, but a man with a community -- Conclusion.

African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia Study Folk

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      Publisher University of Tennessee Press
      Published 12/20/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780870498930
      978-0870498930
      ISBN-10 0870498932
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      Entertainment Composers and songwriters Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

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      Book Synopsis


      Table of 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 chang form, construction, and use -- The transmission of playing methods and tunin -- The banjo song genre : Dink Roberts' man-against-the-law songs -- Garfiel man against the law, but a man with a community -- Conclusion.

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