Picturing the banjo
By: Leo G. Mazow ; with contributions by Sarah Burns...[et al.].
Contributors: Burns, Sarah.; Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University); Corcoran Gallery of Art.; Boston Athenaeum.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Banjo -- Exhibitions; Musical instruments in art -- Exhibitions; Music -- Social aspects -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Banjo cultures / Leo G. Mazow; title: A change of key : the banjo during the Civil War and Reconstruction / John Davis; title: Whiteface : art, women, and the banjo in late-nineteenth-century America / Sarah Burns; title: From sonic to social : noise, quiet, and banjo imagery / Leo G. Mazow; title: Harlem renaissance, plantation formulas, and the dialect(ic) of the banjo / Joyce Henri Robinson; title: From The banjo lesson to the piano lesson : reclaiming the song / Michael D. Harris.