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Banjo Music Research Guides
These guides are the work of Archives staff and scholars supported by the College’s Sound Archives Fellowship Program.
Banjo Music Finding Aids
These collections contain audio and / or video content available in the Berea Sound Archives or the Digital Archives (Berea College). Click on the collection title for more information, a complete list of collection materials, and links to the digitized content.
Other Resources Related to Banjo Music
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals by
Call Number: 784.756 E64sISBN: 0252005201Publication Date: c. 1977"Black folk music to the Civil War"Devil's Ditties, Being Stories of the Kentucky Mountain People by
Call Number: 784.3 T458dPublication Date: 1931Contains description of eastern Kentucky gourd banjo making.Sang Branch Settlers by
Call Number: 398.09769 R645sISBN: 0292775105Publication Date: 1974-11-01Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press.Folk-songs of the Southern United States by
Call Number: 784.4 C731fPublication Date: 1967Edited by D. K. Wilgus. Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press.
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia by Call Number: 787.88 C767aISBN: 0870498932Publication Date: 1995-12-20In this groundbreaking study Cecelia Conway demonstrates that these European Americans borrowed the banjo from African Americans and adapted it to their own musical culture.
That Half-Barbaric Twang by Call Number: 787.8809 L758tISBN: 0252017803Publication Date: 1991-07-01"An interpretation of the changing and conflicting images of a musical instrument as found in the national, commercial culture of the United States"The Old-Time Herald by
Call Number: 780 O44Publication Date: c1987-A magazine dedicated to old-time music.
