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BlackBanjo · Black Banjo Then and Now

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11143 Daniel Jatta
akonting Offline Send Email
Jul 1, 2007
3:21 pm
Hi Everyone, I wish to inform that I will be leaving for Gambia on thursday, the 5th of july, to visit my family and to inform to the Senegambian committee the...
11144 histobjoman Offline Send Email Jul 2, 2007
3:16 pm
... Tony, you need to be more careful than you were in these snippets from a recent post in talking about the "high pitch" of the five-string banjo in making...
11145 histobjoman Offline Send Email Jul 2, 2007
5:23 pm
In an earlier message I posted today I unthinkingly retained the subject-line thread name, "Re: The Stupidities of Tony," of the message I was replying to....
11146 Bruce Too
brucetwo Offline Send Email
Jul 2, 2007
10:10 pm
Any research on tap-dancing banjo players? Think I saw that at least once. Have you?--B2 ... like," "tambourine," "jawbone," ... list, ... I am afraid I have...
11147 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 3, 2007
4:58 pm
Bob is right in every case. I had been up all night attending to the birth of a child by my companion's god daught, a quite amazing thing to see. They waited...
11148 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 3, 2007
5:01 pm
... least once. Have you?--B2 It is a priviledge to have someone who is a survivor of slavery who actually saw tap dancing during its reign. I never saw any...
11149 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 3, 2007
5:09 pm
... message ... that ... I too ... rebukes ... knowledgeable ... Stupidities are made more frequently by the hasty and brash who cant wait to think things out...
11150 writerrad@...
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 4, 2007
2:49 pm
In a message dated 7/4/2007 6:20:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, killerdiller@... writes: In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, banjos...
11151 Doctor Oakroot
doctoroakroot Offline Send Email
Jul 4, 2007
3:01 pm
The string tone of a bass would have been inaudible on early mechanical recording equipment, but I bet the slap would have been audible... and annoying without...
11152 Dan Gellert
djgellert Offline Send Email
Jul 4, 2007
6:13 pm
... enough ... heard ... recording ... 5-string "cello banjo"'s were being made in the 1890's, as the bass voice in banjo orchestras of the time. They were...
11153 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 4, 2007
9:26 pm
... mechanical ... audible... and ... had ... actually ... were ... orchestra ... reports ... contrary ... introduction of the ... recording ... below ... on ...
11154 Tony Thomas
blackbanjotony Offline Send Email
Jul 5, 2007
12:03 am
[Editor's Note: Last week,the American Rose Society honoredDeFord Bailey, an early star of the Grand Ole Opry. Below isa story published in _The Tennessean_....
11155 GLuetje1@...
banjogenie Offline Send Email
Jul 5, 2007
2:46 pm
This is just one kind of start on some of the questions raised on the list about early jazz banjo. Have some other thoughts/leads to post, but they'll have...
11156 naga1t Offline Send Email Jul 5, 2007
9:06 pm
hello all, I've moved out of lurk mode to jump in here I'm doing a band with David Pleasant http://www.davidpleasant1.com/ who is Fulbright scholar and...
11157 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 5, 2007
11:26 pm
... who's speciality is Gullah ... American and Gullah music ... him and my own ... body itself as a percussion ... percussionists were/ ... different parts of...
11158 Tony
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Jul 10, 2007
11:40 am
This is a portion of the article I have long been working on that I thought we all would like to hear. The Ebony Hillbillies were not the first African...
11159 kerryblech@...
kerry_blech Offline Send Email
Jul 10, 2007
12:36 pm
I just found this listed at the WVU [West Virginia University, in Morgantown] archives while browsing for something else. ...
11160 Tony
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Jul 10, 2007
5:16 pm
Thanks Kerry: I am a big Clarence Tross fan. It would be important to see if this was different from the material that Roddy Moore collected from Clarence...
11161 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 16, 2007
12:57 am
Re: [BlackBanjo] Re: Why? Fading of the Banjo in Black Culture ... Culture ... and ... maybe ... was ... Andy is here writing about the American Folk Blues...
11162 Tony
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Jul 16, 2007
5:44 pm
Where is everybody. Can anyone send me the link to the place on the Smithsonian Folkways web site where they have all the liner notes for download in PBS. Or ...
11163 Paul Tyler
drdosido69 Offline Send Email
Jul 16, 2007
5:54 pm
Note to track 2, Tie Your Dog Sally "Will Adam, fiddle. At his home in Kagar, part of Kensington MD, probably late 1953." I can get to the scanner later if...
11164 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
Jul 16, 2007
9:49 pm
... probably late 1953." ... is everybody. ... Folkways ... Or ... section of ... the ... No Paul if I can cred it to liner notes Close to Home that is ...
11165 kerryblech@...
kerry_blech Offline Send Email
Jul 17, 2007
12:12 pm
... "Tie Your Dog Sally Gal" "At his home in Kengar..." Mike Seeger later recounted to me his visit to Kengar relatively recently and was asking locals if any...
11166 suleness@...
suledrum Offline Send Email
Jul 17, 2007
4:54 pm
... ============= if you add all the different instruments of percussion added together on this list, you get a different total 128 mentions of percussion,...
11167 suleness@...
suledrum Offline Send Email
Jul 17, 2007
5:03 pm
... ============= "The Macintosh County Shouters, whom I saw perform at the 1972 National Folk Festival, used the baldheaded end of a broom to keep time with,...
11168 brunocoon Offline Send Email Jul 18, 2007
2:49 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong, as I am confident you will, but: I think one key in separating African and European drum traditions is that the main information in...
11169 suleness@...
suledrum Offline Send Email
Jul 18, 2007
5:01 pm
Hello, Bruno. That's kinda right. Both the low-end and the high-end voices "speak", or solo. Something high is there to cut through and hold the time, true. ...
11170 suleness@...
suledrum Offline Send Email
Jul 18, 2007
5:04 pm
How's this for synchronicity? Here's a question from the Jugband list: "There was a recent thread, which I just can't find, about some sort of broom-handle...
11171 rivnrev@...
rivnrev Offline Send Email
Jul 18, 2007
5:19 pm
Sounds like a ceremonial version of an ordinary broomstick. Reminds me of a thing Ive heard referred to as a 'Lagerphone,' crossed sticks festooned with...
11172 Doctor Oakroot
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Jul 18, 2007
5:36 pm
Just answered that on jugbands... it's a stumpf fiddle. ... -- http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars....
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