Banjology

from http://sites.duke.edu/banjology:

This website is a work-in-progress by Laurent Dubois, David Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold of Duke University. Our goal is to showcase our research on the history of the banjo in the Afro-Atlantic world, including historical documents, visual materials, material objects, and musical transcription and analysis. We focus particularly on Haiti and Louisiana, but also provide information from other areas along with the transcriptions of a wide range of banjo music.

• Banjo and Jazz
  • Jazz Banjoists of New Orleans
• Banjo Music Theory
  • Coo-Coo: A Study
    • Cuckoo Comparisons
    • “The Coo Coo Bird” by Clarence Ashley
    • “The Cuckoo Bird” by Hobart Smith
    • “Coo Coo Bird” by Rufus Kasey
    • “Cuckoo Bird” by John Lawson Tyree
    • “Coo Coo” by Dink Roberts
    • “Coo Coo” by John Snipes
    • “Bird call” motive
  • “Wabash Blues” by Hobart Smith
  • “John Henry” by James Roberts
• The Banjo in the Caribbean
  • The Banjo in Jamaican Mento
    • A Jamaican Banjo
  • The Haitian Banza
  • The Maroon Banza in Saint Domingue
• The Banjo in Louisiana
  • Alfred Mercier on the Banza
  • Old Corn Meal
  • Congo Square
  • Picayune Butler
  • Creole Banjo Songs
• Banjo Curiosities
  • A 17th Century Central African Harp
  • “A New Religion in Mississippi” (1887)