The Banjo : : America’s African Instrument / / Laurent Dubois.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Dubois, Laurent,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 20 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674968813; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674968813
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Laurent Dubois.

American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life, and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today, Laurent Dubois shows.