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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by Gaddy
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- Seller Notes
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- ISBN
- 9780393866803
- Book Title
- Well of Souls : Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Music, History
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Social History, African American
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood. Gaddy shows how the enslaved carried this unique instrument as they were transported and sold by slaveowners throughout the Americas, to Suriname, the Caribbean, and the colonies that became U.S. states, including Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland, and New York. African Americans came together at rituals where the banjo played an essential part. White governments, rightfully afraid that the gatherings could instigate revolt, outlawed them without success. In the mid-nineteenth century, Blackface minstrels appropriated the instrument for their bands, spawning a craze. Eventually the banjo became part of jazz, bluegrass, and country, its deepest history forgotten.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393866807
ISBN-13
9780393866803
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11057232391
Product Key Features
Book Title
Well of Souls : Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Social History, African American
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Music, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml1015.B3g24 2022
Reviews
Superb...Gaddy's lively storytelling re-creates scenes from 17th-century Jamaica to 19th-century Washington, D.C., and beyond, illustrating not only the birth and development of the banjo but also its co-optation by white people., Kristina R. Gaddy has crafted a sensitive, insightful narrative of the 'hidden histories' of the banjo as an emblem of African endurance in exile. Centering the courage and the human costs of the African diaspora, Well of Souls provides historiographic insight and human connection that, while unblinkingly cataloging the horrors of the slave trade, also celebrates the creativity and cultural resiliency of those who resisted erasure. Through the lens of the banjo's history and recovered meanings, Gaddy honors the traditions and the humans who carried them., A potent combination of research and storytelling...What emerges is an extraordinary narrative of African Americans' resistance to brutalisation and the myriad attempts to destroy, pervert, exoticise or appropriate their cultural practices., Profound and invigorating, exhaustively researched and brilliantly conceived, Kristina R. Gaddy's Well of Souls carries the reader across the globe and through centuries to restore our understanding of the banjo's central place in the spiritual and ritual life of the African diaspora. The meaning and significance of the insights to be found here, and the worlds summoned, will change you. It is a stunning, and major, achievement., So vividly does [Kristina Gaddy] write, and so enthusiastically does she convey her meaning, that many of the songs play unbidden in your mind, through the rhythm of her sentences, the lyric of her vocabulary. As much as Well Of Souls is a gripping, fascinating, story, it is also a beautifully written one...a novel in documentary's clothing., For many years, the banjo's early Afro Caribbean history has been shrouded in mystery. Part of this is because the information has been locked away in the deep archives accessible only to the curious specialist interested in the deeper roots of the banjo. I have spent a great portion of my career advocating for much of this history to be placed in the forefront. For the very first time, a reader's version of a few of the earliest written observations of the instrument are on full display in the thoughtful and masterful writing of this book. This book is not only made for the banjo enthusiast but it opens a new window into 17th, 18th and 19th century world history on the ground level by those who lived it and observed the strange new cultural connections brought by a brutal plantation system. These men and women saw and wrote about the banjo's great transformation from a homemade tool of survival to its popularization in American culture. Kristina Gaddy's observations lead the reader back into the 21st century to contend and reanalyze the crooked road of America's musical past., In her compelling, thoroughly researched history, Kristina R. Gaddy reveals a different instrument entirely, one intimately rooted in the African diaspora and capable of expressing flights of sorrow and joy...The time is ripe for lovers of the banjo to learn about its hidden past., Kristina R. Gaddy recenters the banjo as a Black instrument and as an icon of the African diaspora, before and beyond its perversion in the hands of Blackface Minstrels. Like a skillful archeologist, with empathy and respect, Gaddy excavates the sites, sightings, and citations of Black banjo as a central part of dances and rituals of celebration, remembrance, and resistance throughout the Americas. The erasure of this soulful history is an injustice that Gaddy corrects., Kristina R. Gaddy has done a great service to lovers of the banjo, with its deep roots in Africa, and these and Caribbean shores, dating back to the 1600s. Her fecundity of research intertwines the story of the bangeau, banger, bangil with the horrors meted out to enslaved peoples. Though rich in detail, with fascinating period quotes, this is not a dry scholarly tome, but a heartfelt, absorbing telling. You see the story unfold through the eyes of contemporaries, thus bringing a welcome human dimension to the tale of an instrument often stereotyped, but as Kristina points out, one with a history that imbues it with 'sacred' qualities., Kristina Gaddy's deep and rich history of the banjo reveals that the instrument is much more than a means to powerful music-making--it was for centuries the portal to a social and spiritual life through which African Americans tasted freedom, however fleeting. I'll never hear, see, or enjoy the banjo again without reflecting on how the horrors of Black slavery gave reason and form to 'America's Instrument.', Tracing the development of the banjo...this meticulous history also illuminates the difficulties of unearthing a story rooted in the experiences of the enslaved., Gaddy brings the rich and complicated history of this seemingly humble instrument to light in this well-researched and equally well-written volume...This is a glorious and invaluable chronicle for music lovers and everyone interested in American culture.
Lccn
2022-027189
Dewey Decimal
787.8809
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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