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"The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In 'Banjo Roots and Branches', Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, 'Banjo Roots and Branches' offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados."--

African Americans --- Lute --- Banjo --- Lyra (Musical instrument) --- Plucked instruments --- Music --- History and criticism. --- History.

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'Tanbur Long-Necked Lutes Along the Silk Road and beyond' explores the origin, history, construction, and playing techniques of tanbûrs, a musical instrument widely used over vast territories and over many centuries0The diffusion of the tanbur into musical cultures along the Silk Road resulted in a variety of instruments with two or more, occasionally doubled or tripled courses, and a varying number and variously tuned frets, each having its own characteristic sound, playing technique, and repertory. Since the last century, tanburs have spread beyond the Silk Road, and new versions continue to appear due to changing musical and tonal demands required from them. Similar or identical instruments are also known by other names, such as 'saz' or 'baglama', 'dotar' or 'dutar', 'setar', 'doembra', and 'dambura'. This book is divided into two main parts: 'The Tanbur Tradition' which discusses the origin, history, construction and playing techniques of tanburs; and 'The Tanbur Family' which focusses on the long-necked lutes of the tanbur, dotar, saz, setar, doembra, and dambura family of instruments. After a short introduction, the construction, playing technique, and musical traditions are briefly discussed. The book concludes with a glossary of musical instruments, discography, bibliography, illustration credits and index. --

Lute --- Ṭanbūr --- History. --- Ṭambūr --- Tanboor --- Tanbura (Lute) --- Musical instruments --- Saz --- Tambura (Fretted lute) --- Lyra (Musical instrument) --- Plucked instruments

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Lute --- Lute music --- Lutenists --- Musicology --- Luth --- Luth, Musique de --- Luthistes --- Musicologie --- Congresses. --- History --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Conferences - Meetings --- Congrès --- Lyra (Musical instrument) --- Plucked instruments --- Lute players --- Plucked instrument players --- 78.16 Paris --- 78.44.2.2

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Instruments a archets --- Strijkinstrumenten(Strijkstokken) --- Stringed instruments [Bowed] --- Bowed stringed instruments --- -Bowed instruments --- Bowed string instruments --- Bowed strings (Musical instruments) --- Fiddle --- Fretted instruments --- Instruments, Bowed string --- Lira (Musical instrument) --- Lyra (Musical instrument) --- Stringed instruments, Bowed --- Strings (Musical instruments) --- Viole da braccio --- Stringed instruments --- -Bowed stringed instruments --- Bowed instruments --- Musical instruments --- England --- 78.44.1.0 --- 78.79

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Lute music --- Luth, Musique de --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Lute --- Music --- -Music --- -Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- -History and criticism --- Lyra (Musical instrument) --- Plucked instruments --- 78.44.2.2 --- 78.44.9.4 --- History and criticism. --- Lute music - History and criticism --- Music - France - History and criticism