... Nick Bamber's first contribution! Not being in favour of other people keeping their culture is exactly what the French felt when they tried to make the...
thanks eric- unfortunately i can't get him to tell me anything specific to improve. i think he's nice to me cause i'm a chick - sometimes i wish i could be in...
... Having spent a bit of time in the jail in Fort de France and been told that was because they wanted to "keep martinique French," the attitude of French...
... I have a correspondence about several things with Buck Trent's son who is a banjoist and guitarist in Las Vegas, if my memory serves me correct. In my last...
Funny- i've always thought that my typing skills (100+ WPM) and my days as a video game fanatic helped my manual dexterity with my instruments; for all that ...
Hello, folks. I've heard "ragtime" comes from Blacks not playing straight, as a white band would....The played "raggedy"....compared to a Euro notion of...
ot being in favour of other people keeping their culture is exactly ... Sure, who wanted that, but resisting coloniialism did not preclude cultural change and...
Murph Gribble called the music his stringband played for black dancers "Sukey Music" -- In BlackBanjo@yahoogroups.com, Sule Greg Wilson <suleness@c...>...
Folks, 'Ragtime' as a class of pianistic pieces is an attempt by more or less musically educated black composers (literate/noterate for the most part) to forge...
Ha! I was at a bar Saturday night (The Leaning Tower of Pizza in Minneapolis), and a friend of mine said, "Hey, there was a radio spot today about ... well,...
I might come out there in December or January. I was going to come out this October but I decided that my bank account isn't strong enough to support any trips...
What I (and I suspect Ulf) would like to know is where is the evidence of flat neck banjo-like instruments with tuning pegs in West Africa today? As I'm a...
You also meant Percy "Wenrich", who was white, by the way. Yes, I know this has been contested, but he wasn't black in any case. To get back to SGW's original...
... This was a short blip in time in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the dedicated wordprocessor ruled, before your time. Personal computers such as they...
Regarding Allen's post, I mostly agree insofar as I know. Politics cannot substitute for culture and culture cannot substitute for politics. When I was jailed...
... dancers ... According to Stu he refered to certain forms of the music, kind of music he felt wasn't refined enough "Sukey Jumps" which is the same term...
If that type of string instrument as was being played by a mixed race population with links to the slave trade, as George Gibson's posting indicated in...
I was just imagining an alternative reality where I am a dung beetle clicking my mandibles in distress because I can't simultaneously organize dung balls by...
Oh, wow, that¹s funny...some chick learning from some black dude somewhere... Oh dear. My whole wish with the interview is that somebody who still hasn¹t...
On the banjo collectors web site Pete Ross explains how George Wunderlich answered during this interivew all the banjo questions that seemed to be left out...
I asked what I thought was a pertinent question in post # 5805. I was very much interested is a straightforward answer. I did not expect the petulant posts...
Sorry, for the tangent first. First site I'm pasting is a discussion of source of word jazz/jass. Gives explanations I have & haven't heard before, but the...
