Well of Souls

Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

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Kristina R. Gaddy, Rhiannon Giddens: Well of Souls (Hardcover, 2022, W. W. Norton & Company)

Livre relié, 288 pages

Publié 4 octobre 2022 par W. W. Norton & Company.

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978-0-393-86680-3
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juxtaposes conditions of slavery to music and dance's jubilee

A curious history through dramatizing a series of primary sources in paintings, dioramas, and travelogues depicting the banjo at a uniquely African-Caribbean intersection of slavery, music, worship and celebration, and adaptation. As some of the threads are light echoes, I wish there was a bit more sense of engaging with other supporting or supplanted accounts of the instrument's background.