Early Banjo
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Conway, Cecilia. 1995. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Epstein, Dena J. 2003. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
——— 1975. The Folk Banjo: A Documentary History. Ethnomusicology 19, no. 3 (September): 347-371.
——— 1973. African Music in British and French America. The Musical Quarterly 59, no 1 (January): 61-91.
Gura, Philip F. and James F. Bollman. 1999. America’s Instrument: the Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Linn, Karen. 1991. That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Schreyer, Lowell H. 2007. The Banjo Entertainers: Roots to Ragtime, A Banjo History. Mankato, MN: Minnesota Heritage Publishing.
Szego, Peter. 2006. “Searching for the Roots of the Banjo, Part 1.” The Old-Time Herald 10(4):14-23.
———. 2006. “Searching for the Roots of the Banjo, Part 2.” The Old-Time Herald 10(5):10-20.
Winans, Robert B. 1976. “The Folk, the Stage, and the Five-String Banjo in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of American Folklore 89(354):407-37.
—— 1979. “The Black Banjo-Playing Tradition in Virginia and West Virginia.” Folklore and Folklife in Virginia: Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society 1:7-30. http://faculty.virginia.edu/
—— 1990. “Black Instrumental Music Traditions in the Ex-Slave Narratives.” Black Music Research Journal 10(1):43-53.
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