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Building new banjos for an old-time world / by Jones-Bamman, Richard,1951-author.(CARDINAL)883449;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A brief history of the banjo -- The old-time nation -- God is in the details -- An homage to the past -- An apprentice to ghosts -- The banjo's evolving story.Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads-asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the music's appeal and its making. He also delves into the omission of African Americans-the originators of the banjo-from both the instrument's popular history and the nostalgia engendered by the music, and the role contemporary banjo builders are playing to rectify this situation. Book jacket.
Subjects: Banjo; Banjo makers; Old-time music; Banjo music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Folkways [videorecording] by Bramlett, Jim.(CARDINAL)193444; Hash, Albert.; Hicks, Stanley,1911-1989.(CARDINAL)300568; Holt, David,1946-(CARDINAL)146600; Presnell, Edd.; Wonsavage, Carol.(CARDINAL)212649; University of North Carolina Center for Public Television.(CARDINAL)180965;
Executive producer, Carol Wonsavage ; director, Jim Bramlett.Hosted by David Holt ; featuring Stanley Hicks, Edd Presnell, Albert Hash.This program focuses on the crafting of dulcimers, banjos and fiddles in the old traditional style. Features Edd Presnell, maker of the four string mountain dulcimer; Stanley Hicks, maker of the fretless banjo; and Albert Hash, fiddle maker.Adults.VHS.
Subjects: Appalachian dulcimer; Banjo makers; Musical instruments; North Caroliniana.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A guide to the Crooked Road : Virginia's heritage music trail / by Wilson, Joe,1938-2015.(CARDINAL)328230;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.Tips for traveling the crooked road and using this book -- Introduction -- Why so much music here? -- Sources of the music : the Blue Ridge as the first American blender -- Europe meets Africa in the tidewater -- The banjo -- The African banjo -- The wooden banjo -- Why blacks gave up the banjo -- The fiddle -- Violinist or fiddler? -- Fiddling style along the Crooked Road -- Fiddling contests -- The guitar -- The hillbilly reinvention of the guitar -- Luthiers and violin makers -- Technology, older music, and the radio revolution -- New folks in the audience -- Bluegrass and old-time music defined -- Franklin County and Rocky Mount -- Patrick County and Stuart -- Floyd County and Floyd -- Carroll County and Hillsville -- Grayson County and Galax -- Washington County, Abingdon, Damascus, and Bristol -- Scott County and Gate City -- Lee County and Jonesville -- Wise County, Coeburn, Norton, and Big Stone Gap -- Dickenson County and Clintwood -- Music samples from the Crooked Road.
Subjects: Folk music; Musicians; Folk music; Musicians;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Dona got a ramblin' mind [sound recording] / by Carolina Chocolate Drops (Musical group),performer.; Flemons, Dom,1982-performer.; Giddens, Rhiannon,1977-performer.(CARDINAL)339130; Robinson, Justin,1982-performer.; Music Maker Relief Foundation.;
Recorded by Jerry Brown in Chapel Hill, NC.Rhiannon Giddens (banjo, fiddle, voice), Justin Robinson (fiddle, voice), Dom Flemons (guitar, banjo, jug, harmonica, snare, voice).
Subjects: African Americans; Banjo music.; Fiddle tunes; Folk music; Folk songs, English; String band music;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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A treasury of American clocks. by Palmer, Brooks.(CARDINAL)346952;
Grandfather clocks -- Grandmother clocks -- Masssachusetts shelf -- Banjo -- Girandole -- Lyre -- Lighthouse -- New Hampshire mirror -- Edward Howard -- Tower -- Benjamin Franklin's "clock" -- Pillar & scroll -- Looking glass & transition -- Silas Hoadley -- Wagon spring -- OG -- Steeple -- Bee Hive -- Acorn -- Silas Burnham Terry -- Labels & Advertisements -- Clocks of New York state -- Connecticut shelf -- Mother of pearl -- Cottage -- Connecticut wall -- Calendar -- Novelties -- "Walnuts" -- "Blacks" -- "Oaks" -- Alarms -- A/C's -- Museums -- Abbreviations -- List of makers.A Treasury of American Clocks constitutes a chronological pictorial history, with fully descriptive captions, covering such closk as grandfather, banjo, lyre, gallery, pillar and scroll, shelf, steeple, novelty, and alarm.
Subjects: Clocks and watches; Clocks and watches;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dona got a ramblin' mind [sound recording] / by Carolina Chocolate Drops (Musical group); Wilson, Sule Greg.(CARDINAL)365269;
Starry crown (2:55) -- Dona got a ramblin' mind (2:45) -- Rickett's hornpipe (2:32) -- Ol' corn likker (4:08) -- Little Sadie (3:34) -- Little Margaret (2:04) -- Dixie (1:39) -- Black Annie (3:56) -- Tom Dula (3:27) -- Georgie Buck (2:59) -- Old cat died (2:27) -- Another man done gone (2:16) -- Black-eyed daisy (3:13) -- Short life of trouble (2:45) -- Sally Ann (3:17) -- Sourwood Mountain (3:23).Carolina Chocolate Drops (Rhiannon Giddens, vocals, fiddle, banjo ; Dom Flemons, vocals, guitar, jug, harmonica, snare, banjo ; Justin Robinson, vocals, fiddle) ; with Sule Greg Wilson, percussion.Recorded in Chapel Hill, NC, Dec. 29, 2005 (track 2) and Apr. 11-12, 2006 (remainder).
Subjects: Country music; Old-time music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson [sound recording]. by Carolina Chocolate Drops (Musical group); Carlin, Bob.(CARDINAL)164013; Flemons, Dom,1982-; Giddens, Rhiannon,1977-(CARDINAL)339130; Robinson, Justin,1982-; Thompson, Joe,1918-; Wilson, Sule Greg.(CARDINAL)365269; Music Maker Relief Foundation.;
Subjects: African Americans; Banjo music.; Fiddle tunes; Folk music; Folk songs, English; String band music;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Vari-colored songs [sound recording] : a tribute to Langston Hughes / by McCalla, Leyla.; Hughes, Langston,1902-1967.(CARDINAL)150094;
Heart of gold (2:59) -- When I can see the valley (2:10) -- Mesi bondye (2:25) -- Girl (2:52) -- Kamèn sa w fè? (2:19) -- Too blue (2:27) -- Manman mwen (3:18) -- Song for a dark girl (2:51) -- Love again blues (2:39) -- Rose Marie (2:57) -- Latibonit (3:47) -- Search (3:19) -- Lonely house (3:25) -- Changing tide (2:59).Produced by Leyla McCalla and Joseph Dejarnette.Performed by Leyla McCalla, cello, vocals, banjo, guitar ; with acc.
Subjects: Blues (Music); Folk songs, Creole.; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Appalachian fiddler Albert Hash : the last leaf on the tree / by Smith, Malcolm L.,1955-author.(CARDINAL)846525; Lacy, Edwin,1959-author.(CARDINAL)846526; Henderson, Wayne,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)361584;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A young genius on Whitetop Mountain -- An Appalachian upbringing -- Clocks, machines, and "govn'ment work" -- Eric Clapton's guitar -- The grooming of a banjo player -- Bringing Whitetop to the world -- The last leaf on the tree -- The legacy of Albert Hash."World-class luthier and renowned guitarist Wayne Henderson calls Albert Hash "a real folk hero." A virtuoso fiddler from the Blue Ridge, Hash built more than 300 fiddles in his lifetime, recorded numerous times with a variety of bands and inspired countless instrument makers and musicians in the mountains of rural Southwest Virginia near the North Carolina border. His biography is the story of a resourceful, humble man who dedicated his life to his art, community and Appalachian musical heritage."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Hash, Albert, 1917-1983.; Fiddlers; Stringed instrument makers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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What Earl Scruggs heard : string music along the North Carolina-South Carolina border / by Carlin, Bob,author.(CARDINAL)164013;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.Preface. Why Earl? -- Pre-history "B.E." (before Earl) -- The greatest musical tournament in western North Carolina -- John W. Ross, Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright : part one -- Mack Woolbright : part two and three -- What Earl Scruggs heard -- Crazy crystals and aristocratic pigs : the Fisher Hendley Story -- WBT-Charlotte -- Crazy water and crazy bands -- Aristocratically yours, Fisher Hendley -- Conclusion. Post-history "A.E." (after Earl).""When the story of banjo superstar Earl Scruggs is told, the rich musical environment that produced him is often ignored. During his lifetime Scruggs spun a creation myth around his playing, convincing many that he was the sole originator of a three-finger, up-picking, banjo style. For the first time, this book tells the full story of the music and musicians of the western Carolinas that influenced Earl Scruggs. Based on more than 15 years of in-depth research, this book includes the story of country music recording pioneers Parker and Woolbright, Fisher Hendley and Martin Melody Boys; rare images of area music makers; and the history and development of fiddlers' conventions and radio barn dances. Together, these stories are woven into the biographies of Earl's mentors to reveal the musical atmosphere in which they developed the "three-finger picking" style that so enchanted a young Earl Scruggs.""--
Subjects: Scruggs, Earl.; Old-time music; Old-time music; String band music; String band music; Country musicians; Country musicians; Fiddlers; Fiddlers;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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