... is a photographic historian. I don't know how much he can tell about the picture fromlooking at it, but he certainly will know what to look for, other than...
Thanks to the List and to the scholars who've been sharing their expertise on this tintype; I've really been enjoying the discussion. Regarding the banjo, I...
... Um, Actually, I'm not too knowledgeable about what's in the book beside my own contribution to it, mainly because I don't have a copy of it yet. I'm ...
Sitting here perusing youtube, listening to one of my all-time favorite guitar players, Albert Collins. Not a bad way to spend a Friday night. Albert was...
Just a quick comment on this--the presence of frets alone isn't a good way to date the instrument/image. Although apparently not common, we know of fretted...
Yeah, Mon! That sure does look a lot like banjo technique. He uses it again at the end of the song. In between, his playing and Cheik's sure do look...
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We just has a new African American member of this group raise an important and recurrent question that would be good for us to discuss. She asks: "I want to...
Discussion of who should be president of the USA is completely off topic in this list. I will delete any further posts of this nature for any candidate....
... knowledgeable of ... beside my own ... I'm ... commentary on ... read about ... You are thinking of the article by Abbott and Seroff on said subject,...
I just learned about this today from Greg Adams. I have been in a cocoon finishing my article and participating from afar in the magnificent victory of the New...
Hey, there. This is Sule Greg Wilson, a Black. Minstrel music, to me, is a resource. I feel that, even though most of it is EurAms trying to grab a holt of...
For those who read my earlier post, part of my "mixed feeling" is a feeling of frustration--I"d love to go live in Banjul or Bamako or Adelphi or wherever....
... feeling of frustration--I"d love to go live in Banjul or Bamako or Adelphi or wherever. But, my life choices don't have me there. They have me in Tempe,...
That's great about Rique... SGW ... feeling of frustration--I"d love to go live in Banjul or Bamako or Adelphi or wherever. But, my life choices don't have me...
Just wanted to say that Sule is awesome--thank you, as always, for an important and well-put viewpoint! Aurelia ... of it is EurAms trying to grab a holt of...
I am forwarding an email i received from list member and banjo?and akonting?player and researcher Greg Adams.? The facts and links may have been?obscured by...
Aurelia, thanks so much for saying what you did. It came at a very valuable time. I never know how folks are gonna take what I say. As I get older, I try to...
... I clean it up. What is offensive about a little kid whose momma tells him that if he falls asleep in the sun, angels will come and pour molasses on his ...
... I clean it up. What is offensive about a little kid whose momma tells him that if he falls asleep in the sun, angels will come and pour molasses on his...
... Company G has to be a section of a slave labor battalion. C or D is as far as the Army goes. I play to give people a good time, not a rough time. I...
Just in case anyone doesn't get it, ... There is enough racism in the world without inventing more. For the historical record there have been army companies...
... tells him > > that if he falls asleep in the sun, angels will come and pour molasses on> > his head? Nothing, if you substitute "buzz away and let me be"...
... If you really want to get to a point where what we have learned from Minstrel banjo points back to what the original African American banjo music may have...
... It was written in the 80's by James A. Bland. My point is that even after deciding to fix it, they couldn't. My version preserves the typical 19th...
The song is not a post war song, but a prewar song by Foster.>> Greg Adams informs me there is a version of this in the 1855 Briggs minstrel instruction manual...
