The Banjo: America\'s African Instrument

Authors

Scott Gac

ISBN

9780674047846

Price

$29.95

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Abstract

A Transnational Look at the Banjo "A national music is the spontaneous growth of ages of insulated life and feeling," said Christopher Pearce Cranch to the Harvard Music Association in 1846. "It is impossible that American music can do more than reproduce the music of other ages"We are too much a ....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.18.4.07

Recommended Citation

Gac, Scott (2016) "The Banjo: America\'s African Instrument," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 18 : Iss. 4 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.18.4.07
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol18/iss4/2