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BlackBanjo · Black Banjo Then and Now

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  • Members: 438
  • Category: Banjo
  • Founded: Mar 30, 2004
  • Language: English
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430 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
May 1, 2004
2:34 pm
... Florida ... I have nothing to add to the volumes of knowledge about stereotypes that greater students of the culture can provide. However, for those who...
431 Carroll Smith
banjocom Offline Send Email
May 1, 2004
2:41 pm
... Welcome to the land of the imperfect but stubborn (at least in my case) <G>! eg: Just this last week I emailed Dan Levenson, author of "Clawhammer From ...
432 Jim Penson
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May 1, 2004
8:33 pm
You know, people make the mistake that because he's a shy sounding, slow talking old North Carolina boy, that he's not too sharp, but I've heard many quotable...
433 james atleson
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May 1, 2004
9:20 pm
Thanks so much to all who responded to my question about "Georgia Buck." jim atleson...
434 Tony
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May 2, 2004
3:49 am
... slow talking old North Carolina boy, that he's not too sharp, but I've heard many quotable things come out of quiet Mr. Scruggs. I wish they would show...
435 writerrad@...
writerrad Offline Send Email
May 2, 2004
7:24 pm
In a message dated 5/2/2004 11:48:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com writes: In addition, I think he has long has Louise or Lester there...
436 jpdickerson2001 Offline Send Email May 2, 2004
9:04 pm
I just look at the photo of the black banjoist infront of a tent (in Florida?) Is that the photo where the guy doesn't know how to play??? His fingere look...
437 jpdickerson2001 Offline Send Email May 2, 2004
9:26 pm
I have received a welcome reception with my banjo playing, in the black community. But I dress rather dressy, with glittering crystal ear rings, necklace and...
438 Fiddlinshim@...
fiddlinshim Offline Send Email
May 2, 2004
9:31 pm
... Whatever works -- but I don't think it would work for me. Joel...
439 theorbo2000 Offline Send Email May 2, 2004
10:16 pm
Thats not the photo I am referring to the old man with the had of which there are two images. -- In BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com, "jpdickerson2001"...
440 theorbo2000 Offline Send Email May 2, 2004
10:16 pm
Thats not the photo I am referring to the old man with the had of which there are two images. -- In BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com, "jpdickerson2001"...
441 theorbo2000 Offline Send Email May 2, 2004
10:16 pm
Thats not the photo I am referring to the old man with the had of which there are two images. -- In BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com, "jpdickerson2001"...
442 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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May 2, 2004
11:21 pm
Great reasoning! But...don't let them get away with changing names! You let 'em change the name, they think they can forget the history that made the names....
443 Fiddlinshim@...
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May 3, 2004
12:57 am
... Well, it's hardly a response to your post, after all, but it seems appropriate somehow. I do a lot of street music, and I have a fair number of black folks...
444 Fiddlinshim@...
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May 3, 2004
1:05 am
... Forgive me for sounding like Massa. I also give the same lecture-demonstration to white folks who stop. I find it (the idea of the music's having grown out...
445 Mahoney
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May 3, 2004
1:15 am
Tony, I'm Chris, and this is the first time I've posted to this group. Dock Boggs does a version of Reuben's Train, found on disk two of the sessions he did in...
446 Tony
writerrad Offline Send Email
May 3, 2004
5:02 am
... the sessions he did in the 60s with Mike Seeger, released on Smithsonian Folkways. He uses a pretty esoteric tuning (to me anyway), and his version only...
447 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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May 3, 2004
5:17 am
Hey, Folks. Scott Didlake pointed this out to me. Boggs is tuning his banjo, bottom to top, and says, "one, two, three, five, four".....indicating that, in...
448 Tony
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May 3, 2004
11:39 am
... I tend to believe that in matters of dress in performance that the tendency of the folk revivalists and their descendants tends to be something at odds...
449 Tony
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May 3, 2004
11:47 am
Well, I wrote on the same subject in response to Dr. Dickerson. I have tended to try to look more respectable as time goes on. Sometimes I really think I...
450 Carroll Smith
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May 3, 2004
8:02 pm
... Yeah I gave up on the crystal a long time ago but I'll bet that JD decked out Classic Victorian would be something to see and worth a pic! Don't you think?...
451 Fiddlinshim@...
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May 4, 2004
12:27 am
... There's a commonly met-with picture of Charlie Bowman and (I think) the Hillbillies wearing overalls. There are others, too, although you're right about ...
452 Myra
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May 4, 2004
12:35 am
I totally agree about African Americans having influence on hillbilly music. I had that gut feeling ever since I was little. Myra ... stop and ... talking...
453 Tony
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May 4, 2004
3:47 am
I tend to think that much that is deeper and just not said lays with this question. I know from linguistic studies that very much of Southernism in speech has...
454 theorbo2000 Offline Send Email May 4, 2004
4:30 am
" that much more of the fiddling tradition probably belongs to African Americans than is currently acknowledged." I think this is particulary true of...
455 Fiddlinshim@...
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May 4, 2004
4:41 am
... Well, there is the famous story of Narmour and Smith telling the people who had recorded them that they ought to go listen to their friend, John Hurt, ...
456 Tony
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May 4, 2004
11:30 am
. Though I > would disagree witth Tony on one thing I think their are parts of the > Appalachians, though not unexposed to black music forms, which evidence a...
457 Tony
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May 4, 2004
3:12 pm
It is truly banjo diversity at its widest for the Europe band! I posted a picture of James Reese Europe's famous Clef Club Orchestra taken sometime between...
458 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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May 5, 2004
12:34 am
Hello, folks! Just found this site on bones playing, including its application to minstrelsy: http://www.rhythmbones.com/ancient.html SGWilson ...
459 Myra
myrahill_1999 Offline Send Email
May 5, 2004
12:58 am
A young black man was intrigued when he saw me with a banjo this past Sunday. He said that although he know that the banjo was started out in Africa, he said...
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