Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Burns, Sarah.
2. Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University)
3. Corcoran Gallery of Art.
4. Boston Athenaeum.

Description

1. xvi, 179 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Subject

1. Musical instruments in art > Exhibitions
2. Banjo > Exhibitions
3. African Americans in art > Exhibitions
4. Music > Social aspects > Exhibitions

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JMG 06-20

Note

1. GIFT REC'D AT SCHOMBURG
2. "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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]) and index.

Author

1. Mazow, Leo G.

Title

1. Picturing the banjo / Leo G. Mazow ; with contributions by Sarah Burns...[et al.].

Imprint

1. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents

Added author

1. Burns, Sarah.
2. Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University)
3. Corcoran Gallery of Art.
4. Boston Athenaeum.

LCCN

1. 2005013498

ISBN

1. 027102710X (clothbound : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JMG 06-20
2. Sc F 06-371