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Picturing the banjo

Title
Picturing the banjo / Leo G. Mazow ; with contributions by Sarah Burns...[et al.].
Author
Mazow, Leo G.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Burns, Sarah.
  • Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art.
  • Boston Athenaeum.
Description
xvi, 179 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.
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  • GIFT REC'D AT SCHOMBURG
  • "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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]) and index.
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 nineteenth-century American 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.
Call Number
JMG 06-20
ISBN
027102710X (clothbound : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005013498
OCLC
  • 60360438
  • vendor 2005013498
Author
Mazow, Leo G.
Title
Picturing the banjo / Leo G. Mazow ; with contributions by Sarah Burns...[et al.].
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]) and index.
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Burns, Sarah.
Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University)
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Boston Athenaeum.
Research Call Number
JMG 06-20
Sc F 06-371
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