A Time to Protest CD Cecelia Conway demonstrates that these

Cecelia Conway demonstrates that these European Americans borrowed the banjo from African Americans and adapted it to their own musical culture

Like many aspects of the African-American tradition

Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont—among the last American representatives of an African banjo-playing tradition that spans several centuries—Conway reaches beyond the written records to reveal the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns

developing its downstroking playing styles and repertory

and left the banjo and its story to white musicians

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