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- Category: Banjo
- Founded: Mar 30, 2004
- Language: English
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"Beau Jenkins practising [sic] the Militia Band in the new German Waltz." The last panel of "Martial Law in Jamaica," an anonymous hand-colored satirical cartoon print, published by William Holland (London, 1803), currently in the collection of The Lewis Walpole Library of Yale University. The picture shows five Afro-Jamaican musicians playing cow's horn, 'goombay' (square wooden box drum), jawbone, fiddle, and early gourd banjo. -- Shlomo Pestcoe
Since we arrived in the New World Africans have kept the fires of Black banjo, fiddle, & folk percussion burning from Columbia and the Guiannas, across the West Indies to North America. That fire burns in this humble web group. No one can put out these flames. We continue and celebrate that music and nourish its relevance to the lives and cultures of Black people in the New World and to all who love music.
We aim to celebrate the African roots of the music, and the African New World continuity of Black banjo, fiddle, percussion and string band music by bringing traditional Black string music back home to the Black New World community, to showcase it for the world. In this we privilege Black voices and Black ownership of this music but welcome all who respect it.
Sule Greg Wilson explains:
Since banjo is a New World version of multiple African antecedents, it is a multi-ethnic African instrument. Therefore, playing styles, be they stroke, rappin', thumb-lead, up-pickin', Murphy Gribble-type three-finger rolls, or whatever, must be considered part of the African tradition. Hence, mention of the "African influences" in banjo playing and history starts from a false supposition that the thing ain't All-African to begin with.
* We can talk about Euro-influences with cheese boxes (has that been proven to be a Euro-American adaptation?) Euro-style necks, racist lyric content and Irish melody lines and rhythm structure, and the like. All these aspects are just grafts onto an already-existing tree. Tie an app
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Re: the storm(from david)
nice, thanks. Life is LIVE!!!! ________________________________ From: paolo botti <banjopaolo@...> To: BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:29 pm
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d. christopher johnso...
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the storm
hi black banjo friends, here's a performance I made with my friend Betty Gilmore, afroamerican singer and writer based here in Italy, hope you enjoy...
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:17 pm
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paolo botti
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Re: On finding black musicians...
there may be a file in the archives that has a list of all available compilations of African American banjo recordings. What do you want to play? Sting band
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:31 am
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Guy De Chalus
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Re: On finding black musicians...
I was advised to choose a style of playing that I wanted to play, then concentrate on that. I really honor the old time Black banjo players from long ago. I'm
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:53 am
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C Phillips
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Re: On finding black musicians...
I whole heartily and encourage you to make a banjo. I learn how to make mine with gourd banjo artist David Holt at the Arkansas Folk Center while living a
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:16 am
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