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Picturing the banjo

Author: Leo G Mazow; Sarah Burns; Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University); Corcoran Gallery of Art.; Boston Athenaeum.; et al
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leo G Mazow; Sarah Burns; Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University); Corcoran Gallery of Art.; Boston Athenaeum.; et al
ISBN: 027102710X 9780271027104
OCLC Number: 60360438
Notes: "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.
Description: xvi, 179 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Leo G. Mazow ; with contributions by Sarah Burns...[et al.].
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