Hey, Folks. This is something kinda dear to my heart. I'm almost finished "Stylin"; in it they dedicate many pages to AfrAm parades: we as a people had...
'Community gathering' marks holiday tradition By Angela Mack, Staff Writer The sound of drums signaled Jonkonnu's arrival Thursday at the Bellamy Mansion. ...
Great point you make, Tony. Listen to Will Slyden's "John Henry"; it's a bit out of the mold, and owes a bit to John Hurt's "Steel Driving Man", perhaps. ...
... "Cece Conway says in her book that she believes this song is so originally African American or African that she believes this song was developed for...
Thanks, Matt! I had heard about this happening. Did you go? Have a contact number for folks that run it? SGW ... ============= 'Community gathering' marks...
... Quite true. His name was Sim. I don't know anything more about him, but I can tell you what an Illinois Central conductor told me when I used to brake for...
Hello, Folks. yesterday I was standing outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a place I'd been to many times before. I turned and examined the terra-cotta...
"By 'four-string' we mean banjo with no chanterelle, or short drone string." -- Sule Greg Wilson -- You're working off a faulty premise here, my friend. The...
I've been spending a bit of time reading about Ragtime in the past week or two and found that not only did Joplin's mother play the banjo, but his father...
... "Cece Conway says in her book that she believes this song is so originally African American or African that she believes this song was developed for ...
I think Shlomo's contribution here is quite important. If Shlomo agrees, I will take it and format it and put in our files section, or would Shlomo like the...
What should be holidays is off-topic for this group, but you need to connect what is said about this issue in Stylin with what is said about African American...
... I don't know why you put "breakdowns" in quotes, but this scenario makes a great deal of sense to me. A breakdown was a dance which formerly looked like...
... He was shoveling coal. All firemen, no matter what their racial attribution, were coal black when they were working. daveA -- Playing "as written" is...
From the late 19th Century until it was overthrown by civil rights law suits the Brother Hood of Railway Engineers and the other Brotherhoods specifically...
In "The Wreck of the Old '97", the engineer "turns around to his black greasy fireman"; I have always assumed that the black was coal dust, and that the grease...
... black ... dust, and ... I have always assummed that the person was Black since all firemen on Southern railroads around the turn of the century were...
Casey turns to the fireman and says, "Boy".....he's gotta be talkin' to a nigga.... SGW ... ============= In "The Wreck of the Old '97", the engineer "turns...
Greetings! Pape N'Diaye and TAZIAInc. would like to thank each of you who participated in the New York New Year's African Dance Festival! All of you-the...
It's sort of thought that Joplin designed Ragtime to sound like the banjo... as the banjo was a hot item at the time he was composing. Ragtime sure sounds...
Yes; ragtime banjo sounds great! When were four-string banjos (tango, tenor, jazz) first manufactured? It was before the mandolin/ukulele orchestra craze....
... manufactured? It was before the mandolin/ukulele orchestra craze. But what started them--the presence of the new strumming banjo? ... with four-string...
... the banjo... as the banjo was ... great on the banjo. ... wrote: Joplin did not design Ragtime. While some limit Ragtime to the scores of publishing...
The tenor banjo was first manufactured by the Chicago banjo maker J.B. Schall (1878-1907) in the early 1900s, following the designs of Prof. Louis Stepner,...
I know the revolution cannot be far off when Der Morgen Freiheit finally gets mentioned in this lsit nice post Shlomo . A few years back, one ... youth, had ...
What little I know of the African instruments ancestral to the banjo, indicate that these instruments make their music primarily by striking individual strings...
