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<p>An illustrated history of the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans to the sophisticated musical machine so loved by all Americans at the turn of the 20th century. 97 color and 156 b&w illus.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>Bollman's collecting passion is material on historic banjo manufacture and marketing--he houses over 300 instruments, thousands of photographs, numerous patents, trade catalogs, ads, sheet music covers, periodicals, and banjo-themed "realia" in his Boston-area home. For this book, he shared his vast knowledge of banjo history with cultural historian Gura (English/American studies, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), who augmented his research using other public and private collections. Thus, academic scholarship and collecting enthusiasm have combined to produce a responsible, entertaining overview of the banjo as an artifact of 19th-century American culture, one that crossed racial, economic, and stylistic lines and had a real effect on later musical developments, especially ragtime. Recommended for large American music and popular culture collections.--Bonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Lib., Coll. Park Copyri
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- Author
- Gura, Philip F., 1950-; Bollman, James F
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807824849
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Music
- Rating
- 4.65 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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