Banjo Roots and Branches RELEASED!
Added 2018-08-24 20:38:47 +0000 UTCFinally, the long-awaited release of BANJO ROOTS AND BRANCHES!
This book was about ten years in the making and brings together cutting-edge banjo history research from a diverse group of leading academics, musicians and collectors. The late Shlomo Pestcoe, ethnomusicologist Greg C. Adams, pioneering Akonting researcher Dr. Chuck Levy, minstrel banjo expert Dr. Robet Winans, master luthier Pete Ross, prolific researcher Tony Thomas and my longtime friend and mentor George R. Gibson are among the contributors to this new, vital survey of banjo history.
"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."
Order Here: press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/23cnd4ft9780252041945.html
Comments
I cannot think of this book without think of the monumental contribution of the great--both as a scholar and a musician but to those who knew him a friend-Shlomo Pestcoe. Shlomo's work in that book will stand as the fundamental work explain where banjos come from as instruments in immensely documented research in the book and beyond. Shlomo's education was having a high school diploma from New Jersey and smarts and love of music from being a working musician and later a music store music teacher. His special knack and love for teaching kids music openned other doors. He was also limited in his last years by the heart problems that took his life and was rarely able to leave New York, He loved the music for the people who had made it, and took our need to give back to the music makers in working hard and serious about the banjo
Tony Thomas
2018-09-01 23:47:04 +0000 UTCI did not believe there was much link between early banjos and guitars until reading Shlomo and Greg's "ethno-organological" analyses (that is a mouthful). Their research has convinced me that the wooden tuning pegs and flat fingerboard of the banjo (not found on west African lutes) were actually incorporated from European instruments. LOTS of new info in this book.
Clifton Hicks
2018-09-01 01:31:04 +0000 UTCMost important is the work of Shlomo, Pete, and Greg that pinpoint the real origins of the banjo and its relationship to both African and European instruments that preceded it, as well as Winans essays on musical instruments played by slaves and the survey of early banjo sitings both internationally and in North America by Bob and Greg
Tony Thomas
2018-08-31 20:39:01 +0000 UTCRoots & Branches represents when folks in the banjo history world decided to do real research, to back up what we said with PROOF and look into what people who study related portions of the history can tell us. In many essays, I know mine and several others I helped the writers or discussed with, we found out things we did not think when we said we would write about these topics.
Tony Thomas
2018-08-31 20:36:45 +0000 UTCThis book belongs in every home
Tony Thomas
2018-08-31 20:29:59 +0000 UTCYou could do a few more of these 'mail bag' type videos where people send you cool stuff and you present it. The cylinder record is very cool!
Micheál Mac Labhrás
2018-08-29 09:24:08 +0000 UTCJust got mine as well! Super excited to get into the book.
jason k.
2018-08-25 00:08:33 +0000 UTCLooking forward to reading the book.
Sean Gares
2018-08-24 20:59:38 +0000 UTC
