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The Banjo

America’s African Instrument

Laurent Dubois

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674047846

Publication Date: 03/14/2016

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 halftones

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Introduction
1. Sounding Africa
2. The First African Instrument
3. Three Leaves
4. The Sound of Freedom
5. The Banjo Meets Blackface
6. Rings Like Silver, Shines Like Gold
7. Black Banjo
8. Sounding America
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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On WUOT [Knoxville, TN]’s Changing Course, listen to Laurent Dubois discuss how stringed instruments journeyed with enslaved people from Africa, to the Caribbean, and then to the United States, and how the current banjo shape, sound, and culture consolidated out of these varied forms
On WUNC’s The State of Things, listen to Professor Dubois discuss the African roots of quintessentially American banjo music, and listen to musician Joe Newberry play some tunes
Read an interview with Dubois at Bluegrass Today

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