America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth-Century

by Philip F. Gura and James F. Bollman

This handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from primitive folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America.

Philip Gura and James Bollman chart the evolution of "America's instrument," the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans brought to the New World in the seventeenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807824844
• ISBN13: 9780807824849
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 11.0"