Good Lord! Don't you people have day jobs? Lawns to mow? Teen-age children to bail out of jail? Guess I've just reached that huffin'-and-puffin'-to-keep-up...
Tim, I'm so glad you're having a good time in our epistemological pepperpot. I'm having kind of a good time myself, come to think of it. Let me answer what I ...
Recently, performance artist Laurie Anderson managed to get a message to Thomas Pynchon that she wanted his permission to do an opera based on Gravity's...
... out ... (Johnnie ... Cincinatti, and ... Stovepipe, AKA ... later than> ... Rufus ... with Paul ... the Blues. ... Brewer knew ... start by ... a ... ...
Tony, ... That is the case: the one from Alabama is the same as the one Paul Oliver interviewed in Chicago. You can read about the Cincinatti one in Steve ...
In relation to Black Banjo players, lost and found: Here's an excerpt from the liner notes written by Jim Griffith for "Hot Times in Tucson"...an album...
Sule, Re one of Tony's recent comments, I think mapping and documenting what we got would be a start. Doing a database of all known black banjo players, in all...
Time to "delurk," as someone else recently said. Lots of interesting discussion lately about two topics: why did blacks stop playing the banjo, and how many...
Who knows the history of Cajun and Zydeco dance music of Louisiana and if the banjo played any part in it, especially the early days. All the best Graham...
Bob, This is great stuff! You should delurk more often. It is precisely the stuff I was talking about needing to be dredged up and analysed. IN archaeology, ...
On April 24, NPR aired a great portrait of John Francis, an African American banjo-playing environmental activist who, as I understand it, took a vow of...
Well this is good they covered at least one banjoist, even though national NPR though given plenty of notice and offers by a number of their local stations...
If you go to this page on his web site http://www.planetwalk.org/library/planetwalkmov1 And if Quicktime movies work better on your computer than they do on ...
""Realizing that the figures I have come up with here are speculative, I hope that they provide useful information for the group, and generate some interesting...
It seems to me that a gourd banjo, due to its rather fragile and organic nature, might not persist through the years. THe skin would rot, the gourd get...
why the banjo more or less disappeared from the African ... Here Ulf do you mean the 19th Century or the 20th century the era of the 1900s? Has Bob published...
The heart of the issue in tracing Black banjoists of the past, is that the true historical record of African American banjo playing was never kept by those...
People keep going on and on about how fragile gourd banjos are and that's probably why we can't find any of them. While this may be true, I'd like to know...
Now seems as good a time as any to put in my two cents worth on the subject. Last year, an incidentally-black bandola-playing friend from Guanare, Venezuela,...
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May 3, 2005 2:58 pm
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I second that. The gourds I make instruments from are very sturdy - easily as strong as a well made guitar soundbox. ... -- http://DoctorOakroot.com -...
... Hey, Tony ... try to get this guy to show up at the next Gathering. The last one was too easy logistically -- you need some challenges next time around! ...
Disclaimer: I am not a folklorist, nor do I play one on TV. Merely some observations from fieldwork that I watched my parents do. Why do folklorists/others...
Just to let you know that the DIY (Do It Yourself) Network on cable/satellite will start airing four shows devoted to building a gourd banjo (1 show) and an...
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Reading this very wise comment, I remember a member once active in our group, a drummer originally from New Orleans, who stated that in many Black families...
Greetings, I have just arrived in Florida after a long trip that included the gathering in Boone, the Woodsongs program in Lexington, Kentucky, and a stay on...
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