Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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African American origins of the banjo
African Americans and the banjo
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American banjo builders
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antimodernism
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banjo construction techniques
banjo playing and antimodernism
banjo's mystique
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building musical communities
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Fairbanks
fashioning musical instruments
folk music revival
frailing
gourd banjo
hillbilly
history of the banjo
intentional community
Jim Crow
making musical communities
minstrel
minstrelsy
New Lost City Ramblers
nostalgia
old-time music
old-time music and instrument making
Reconstruction
Seeger
slavery
Stewart
Sweeney
syncopation
techniques of banjo building
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252041303
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the music's appeal and its making.
Richard Jones-Bamman is Emeritus Professor of Music at Eastern Connecticut State University.
