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The Banjo - America's African Instrument - Bluegrass Today Laurent Dubois says he thinks of his new book, The Banjo Americas African Instrument, as a biography of the banjo. Tracing this uniquely American instrument from its West African roots, through its emergence in the folk and popular music of the Caribbean islands and the Southeastern United States from the 17th century to today, is the theme for this scholarly work targeted at a popular ... The Banjo: Americas African Instrument, by Laurent DuBois ... The Banjo: Americas African Instrument, Laurent DuBois Belknap Press (2016) A banjo is an instrument that produces a sound formed by strings over skin. That is the defining feature of the array of African predecessors, the distinguishing mark breaking off the hereditary line from some prehistoric ur-string instrument. The Banjo Laurent Dubois Harvard University Press 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.
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