CALL #       ML3556 .C667 1995.
AUTHOR       Conway, Cecelia.
TITLE        African banjo echoes in Appalachia : a study of folk traditions /
               Cecelia Conway.
EDITION      1st ed.
IMPRINT      Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.
DESCRIPT'N   xxviii, 394 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
SERIES       Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series.
             Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series 
               (Unnumbered)
NOTE         Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-368) and index.
             Introduction: Griots of piedmont North Carolina and portrait of 
               songster Will Baldwin -- Signifying at the crossroads : African
               -American traditions of the folk banjo -- The ritual of 
               minstrelsy : some were buffoons, but others were apprentices --
               Mountain echoes of the African banjo -- The banjo : its 
               changing form, construction, and use -- The transmission of 
               playing methods and tunings -- The banjo song genre : Dink 
               Roberts' man-against-the-law songs -- Garfield : man against 
               the law, but a man with a community -- Conclusion.
SUBJECT      Afro-Americans --Appalachian Region --Music --History and 
               criticism.
             Folk music --Appalachian Region --History and criticism.
             Folk songs, English --Appalachian Region --History and criticism.
             Banjo --Appalachian Region.
             Minstrel shows --Appalachian Region.
OCLC #       31707441.
LCCN         94018762 /MN.
LOCAL PAC    CWRU.
             Oberlin College.
             U of Cincinnati.
             Miami U.
             U of Akron.
             Kent State U.
             U of Toledo.
             Ohio State U.