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Introduction to Early Banjo History: 1620 – 1870

This short discussion, accompanied by historic images and music, outlines the gourd banjo’s use in early African American and Anglo-American folk culture. (Music provided by Clifton Hicks & Lars Prillaman.)

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Sources:
“Black Banjo, Fiddle and Dance in Kentucky and the Amalgamation of African American and Anglo-American Folk Music” by George R. Gibson in Banjo Roots and Branches (Winans, 2018) https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books…​

America’s Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century (Gura & Bollman, 1999)

Sinful Tunes & Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (Epstein, 1977)

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