NINETEENTH-CENTURY BANJOS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: CUSTOM AND TRADITION IN A MODERN EARLY BANJO REVIVAL

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dc.contributor.advisorWitzleben, J. Lawrenceen_US
dc.contributor.authorAdams, Greg C.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-07T05:53:33Z
dc.date.available2012-07-07T05:53:33Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis demonstrates how members of a modern music revival use the banjo to create a counter narrative to America's whiteness. Within this revival, nineteenth-century banjos are central to a growing interest in antebellum, early minstrel, and Civil War era music and culture. As researchers, collectors, musicians, and instrument builders pursue this interest, they explore the dissonances of the legacies surrounding slavery, blackface minstrelsy, and the traumas of the American Civil War. Framing this phenomenon within Eric Hobsbawm's theories of custom and tradition and Thomas Turino's concepts of habits, socialization, and cultural cohort relationships, I argue that this modern revival supports a form of critical ethnography aimed for advocacy on three fronts--advocacy that challenges marginalizing stereotypes, promotes opportunities to rethink the banjo's cultural significance as a national instrument of whiteness, and creates greater infrastructure for the knowledge and material culture amassed by members of the banjo community.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12667
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEthnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbanjoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcultural traumaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledminstrelsyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledracismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrevivalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledslaveryen_US
dc.titleNINETEENTH-CENTURY BANJOS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: CUSTOM AND TRADITION IN A MODERN EARLY BANJO REVIVALen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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