The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy by Bob Carlin

The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy

Bob Carlin

203 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative medium-paced
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Joel Walker Sweeney was, in essence, the Elvis Presley of the 1840s. A professional banjo player, Sweeney introduced mainstream America to a music (and musical instrument) which had its roots in the transplanted black culture of the southern slave...

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