Cecelia Conway (59 results)

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paperback. Condition: very good-. 394 pages; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4" Inked out sticker on spine with clear tape over it; plastic laminate over covers; library stamping and the usual markings on a few pages; sticker and pocket glued to inside rear cover.

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Binding is tight. Pages unmarked and barely aged. Cover has minimal wear.; PUBLICATIONS Of The AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY NEW SERIES; 7.5 X 1.1 X 9 inches; 423 pages.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight volume with clean and bright pages. Wrappers show minor edge rubbing. Contents: Conway, Mountain echoes of the African banjo. Williams, Unpacking Pinckney in Poland. Hurley, The low-down on a high place: family matters in Heathen Valley. AppalJ interview: Daniel Boyd. Regular columns, reviews. 10.5" (26 cm) tall; 92 pages.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: Study Folk Traditions. Book.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. (xxviii) 394pp including index. Illustrated thick glossy card covers with titles to front and spine. No inscriptions. Teeny tiny bump to bottom of front cover at leading edge. Otherwise a lovely clean tight and bright copy.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Throughout the Upland South, the  banjo has become an emblem of white mountain folk, who are generally credited with creating the short-thumb-string banjo, developing its downstroking playing styles and repertory, and spreading its influence to the national consciousness. In this groundbreaking study, however, Cecelia Conway demonstrates that these European Americans borrowed the banjo from African Americans and adapted it to their own musical culture. Like many aspects of the African-American tradition, the influence of black banjo music has been largely unrecorded and nearly forgotten-until now. Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont-among the last American representatives of an African banjo-playing tradition that spans several centuries-Conway reaches beyond the written records to reveal the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns, improvisational playing styles, and the accompanying singing and dance movements to traditional West African music performances. The author then shows how Africans had, by the mid-eighteenth century, transformed the lyrical music of the gourd banjo as they dealt with the experience of slavery in America. By the mid-nineteenth century, white southern musicians were learning the banjo playing styles of their African-American mentors and had soon created or popularized a five-string, wooden-rim banjo. Some of these white banjo players remained in the mountain hollows, but others dispersed banjo music to distant musicians and the American public through popular minstrel shows. By the turn of the century, traditional black and white musicians still shared banjo playing, and Conway shows that this exchange gave rise to a distinct and complex new genre-the banjo song. Soon, however, black banjo players put down their banjos, set their songs with increasingly assertive commentary to the guitar, and left the banjo and its story to white musicians. But the banjo still echoed at the crossroads between the West African griots, the traveling country guitar bluesmen, the banjo players of the old-time southern string bands, and eventually the bluegrass bands.The Author: Cecelia Conway is associate professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is a folklorist who teaches twentieth-century literature, including cultural perspectives, southern literature, and film. …

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