Even though the works I have read about Black dance really avoid discussing Blues dancing as such, the combination of what they say, and what I have seen...
Tony: Maybe your review flushed out copies. I just checked the Amazon site. You can get copies that are described in good condition starting at $8.99+ 3.49...
... site. You can get ... shipping... I just ... Great, this is a really important book on African and African American musical culture beyond dancing and a...
Just one of several you can find on YouTube ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQB745k9So) < Ginny ************************************** See what's free at...
In a message dated 5/6/2007 9:14:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, WriterRad writes: capitalism. Tony Thomas All this means that if you like something especially...
In the 1960s Pete Seeger had a TV program called Rainbow Quest. He had as guests many of the stars of traditional folk music as well as singer songwriters like...
Also an interestig album I picked a few weeks back is Pete Seeger an Sonny Terry at Carnegie Hall. Its just a great album. Its mostly Pete, which is great in...
The best books on slavery are books that focus on one or another area rather than general books on slavery. Of course, Dana Epstein's book is still the best...
... an Sonny Terry at Carnegie Hall. Its just a great album. Its mostly Pete, which is great in itself, but when Sonny joins in it is sublime. ... Pete...
In fairness, there has been a sea change in ideas about appropriate public dress in all areas of American life. For instance, the design of public parks,...
... It may have just been an oddity of microphone placement or of my perception, but I recall thinking years ago how recordings of Leadbelly and Sonny had ...
Does anyone know where I can get banjo TABS or guidance to Gus Cannon/Jug Stompers/Memphis Jug Band music? "Stealin' Stealin'" "Walk Right In" and so on......
That or Sonny couldn't elbow Leadbelly away from the microphone. ... It may have just been an oddity of microphone placement or of my perception, but I recall...
Best thing I could tell you is to learn the chord structure of the tune and then listen listen listen. Rarely have I heard any of the old time material of any...
I have been struggling with this too of late. I am not a strong believer in tab and believe the music wasn't transferred by written methods and it is better...
... LOL if one tried to do that as Lightning Hopkins was wont to say, "You might find yourself picking yourself up off the floor." Leadbelly did not play!...
In honor of our discussion I put on my work copy of Gus Cannon 1927-28 on the cd player (I think I have two copies of this CD, plus the same material on two...
This morning I listened to the CDs of Josh Thomas, a Black banjoist from Virginia who was recorded around 1970. There are a few cuts of Josh Thomas on the...
The one that separates the banjo and guitar in my opinion is the use of bass. The banjo has no bass frequency. If you listen back to any early banjo player...
Two really big factors, I have to briefly set this apart as hypothesis, though it seems reasonable to me, were urbanization and a willingness to seek out new...
"...Before looking at Cannon and Thomas and listening to many early non-banjo blusicians like Charley Paton, Bukka White, Skip James, I thought the reason why...
Because the banjo went out with the non-blues string band music we can simply identify the banjo with the string band music and really engage in questions...
... early ... I ... tuning... " ... There is a very strong literature of rag time arrangements for the five string banjo all associated with the classic...
... use of bass. The banjo has no bass frequency. If you listen back to any early banjo player white or black a distinctive quality is the feet. This is the...
But I did hear a very very bluesy tenor banjoist ... Jimmy Mazzy in Boston. He was so bluesy sounding that he sounded black. The neck of his banjo is loose so...
... in Boston. He was so bluesy sounding that he sounded black. The neck of his banjo is loose so that he can > bend the note. Bending might also give the...
It takes a very long time for some light bulbs to light in my neurons. But Joan's post, and Tony's added comment re to banjo tone duration and blues finally...
Here's a tidbit: before banjos moved into the parlor and became "Europeanized", they were built for sound, deep and booming sound. Minstrel banjos with big...
