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Picturing the banjo

Leo G. Mazow

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"Picturing the Banjo accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, and held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 10 December 2005-5 March 2006; the Palmer Museum of Art, 30 March-25 June 2006; and the Boston Athenaeum, 26 July-21 October 2006."--T.p. verso.

Contents

Banjo cultures / Leo G. Mazow
A change of key : the banjo during the Civil War and Reconstruction / John Davis
Whiteface : art, women, and the banjo in late-nineteenth-century America / Sarah Burns
From sonic to social : noise, quiet, and banjo imagery / Leo G. Mazow
Harlem renaissance, plantation formulas, and the dialect(ic) of the banjo / Joyce Henri Robinson
From The banjo lesson to the piano lesson : reclaiming the song / Michael D. Harris.

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