Banning Eyre
Banning Eyre is a guitarist, musicologist, writer, photographer, and producer specializing in the
music of Africa. He has produced the
Peabody Award-winning radio show ''
Afropop Worldwide'' and is author of several books on African music including ''AFROPOP! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music'' (with Sean Barlow), ''In Griot Time, An American Guitarist in Mali'', ''Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe'', the instructional guide ''Guitar Atlas: Africa'', and a report on
censorship in
Zimbabwe for the Danish human rights organization
Freemuse entitled ''Playing With Fire, Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music''.
He also contributed to the
Cambridge Companion series volume on the
guitar.
Eyre lives in
Brooklyn,
New York.
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