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The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus.
Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados.
Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
Show moreThe story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus.
Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados.
Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
Show moreRobert B. Winans is a professor emeritus of American literature and folklore at Gettysburg College.
Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize, American Musical Instrument Society,
2020
"Anyone with a strong interest in the early history of the banjo or
in the broader history of American instrumental music in oral
tradition will want a copy of this fine collection. All the work is
imaginative, careful, and thoroughly documented. The essays flow
smoothly." --Western Folklore
"Banjo Roots and Branches is a comprehensively researched and
pathbreaking piece of banjo roots scholarship. " --Music in
American Life
"Inspired by Dena Epstein, this is the first book to use a holistic
approach in exploring the history of the banjo; it is an excellent
compilation of articles for those interested in the music of Africa
and the Americas."--Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, author of Fiddling
in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba
Cultures
"Winans makes a rich addition to the literature. Recommended."
--Choice
"As far as I know this book has no real equivalents. Several of the
essays are pioneering contributions to the esoteric but intriguing
field of banjo research and folklore and ethnomusicology
generally."--Robert S. Cantwell, author of Bluegrass Breakdown: The
Making of the Old Southern Sound
"An excellent book with plenty of material for both specialist and
casual readers." --Galpin Society Journal
"Roots and Branches collects an extraordinary amount of research
into the ongoing discovery of the banjo's Byzantine history. . .
.Each essay speaks directly to all others, lending the book an
unusual level of cohesion for an edited volume." --The World of
Music
"A significant contribution to our understanding of the history and
current significance of the banjo." --Ethnomusicology
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