Description
| Product ID: | 9780674047846 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Banjo |
| Subtitle: | America’s African Instrument |
| Authors: | Author: Laurent Dubois |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | String instruments, String instruments, Ethnic studies, Black & Asian studies, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | The Belknap Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-03-14 |
