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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gaddy, Kristina R., author.     Subjects     Banjo -- History.     Enslaved persons -- America -- Social life and customs.     Enslaved persons -- America -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gaddy, Kristina R., author.       by title:      Well of souls : unco...         MARC Display

Well of souls : uncovering the banjo's hidden history / Kristina R. Gaddy ; [foreword by Rhiannon Giddens]. by Gaddy, Kristina R., author. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] Subjects Banjo -- History.   Enslaved persons -- America -- Social life and customs.   Enslaved persons -- America -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780393866803 (cloth) : 0393866807 (cloth) Description:  xvii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  1st Movement. The Atlantic Ocean, 1687 ; Jamaica, 1687 ; Martinique, 1694 ; New York, 1736 ; Maryland, 1758 ; Jamaica, 1750 ; Suriname, 1773 ; South Carolina, 1780s ; Cap François, Saint-Domingue, 1782 ; England, 1787 ; Albany, New York, 1803 -- 2nd Movement. Paramaribo, Suriname, 1816 ; New Orleans, Louisiana, 1819 ; Haiti, 1841 ; Suriname, 1850 ; Paramaribo, Suriname, 1855 -- 3rd Movement. New York City, 1840 ; New Orleans, Louisiana, 1850 ; Washington, DC, 1857. Requests:  0 Summary:  "An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood. Gaddy shows how the enslaved carried this unique instrument as they were transported and sold by slaveowners throughout the Americas, to Suriname, the Caribbean, and the colonies that became U.S. states, including Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland, and New York. African Americans came together at rituals where the banjo played an essential part. White governments, rightfully afraid that the gatherings could instigate revolt, outlawed them without success. In the mid-nineteenth century, Blackface minstrels appropriated the instrument for their bands, spawning a craze. Eventually the banjo became part of jazz, bluegrass, and country, its deepest history forgotten"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 787.8809 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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