Banjo Heritage Bibliography (Reading List)
Added 2021-06-16 14:46:32 +0000 UTC
Below is a list of articles, essays, and books that are relevant to our understanding of early banjo history.
Bauer, Albert (.pdf attached below)
"Reminiscences of a Banjo Player" S. S. Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal (February, 1893 and other issues...)
Berlin, Ira
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)
Combs, Josiah
Folk-Songs of the Southern United States (1967)
Conway, Cecilia
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions (1995)
Dubois, Laurent
The Banjo: America's African Instrument (2016)
Epstein, Dena
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (1977)
"The Folk Banjo: A Documentary History" Ethnomusicology19, no. 3 (1975)
Fischer, David
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989)
Gibson, George
"Black Banjo, Fiddle and Dance in Kentucky and the Amalgamation of African American and Anglo-American Folk Music" Banjo Roots and Banches edited by Robert Winans (2018)
"Learning to Play Banjo: Emulation vs. Imitation" (2002)
"Gourd Banjos: From Africa to the Appalachians" (2001)
Gura, Phillip & James Bollman
America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century (1999)
Hopkin, Rachel (.pdf attached below)
"Countering Cultural Strip-Mining in Eastern Kentucky: Music Making as Cultural Reconstruction" Western Folklore Magazine (Winter, 2016-2017)
Irwin, John
Musical Instruments of the Southern Appalachian Mountains (1979)
Linn, Karen
That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture, Music in American Life (1991)
Merritt, Keri Leigh
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (2017)
Morgan, Philip
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry (1998)
Robert, Leonard
Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Tales of a Kentucky Mountain Family (1974)
Rosenbaum, Arthur
Old-Time Mountain Banjo (1968)
Sommerville, Diane Miller
Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era South (2018)
Tallmadge, William
"The Folk Banjo and Clawhammer Performance Practice in the Upper South: A Study of Origins" The Appalachian Experience edited by Barry M. Buxton Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium (1983)
Wigginton, Eliot
Foxfire 6 (1980)
Foxfire 3 (1975)
Winans, Robert
Banjo Roots and Branches (2018)
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