That Half-Barbaric Twang
Book, by Karen Linn
A cultural history of the banjo's shifting image in American life, tracing how the instrument moved from its African American and minstrel-stage associations to a genteel parlor instrument, a jazz-age novelty, and a symbol of rural white Southern tradition.
In the newsletter
- No. 31 December 2002
Elsewhere
- WorldCat
- ISBN: 0252017803 (University of Illinois Press, Music in American Life series, 1991)
- openlibrary.org