Below is a list of articles, essays, and books that are relevant to our understanding of early banjo culture.
- Bauer, Albert (.pdf attached below)
"Reminiscences of a Banjo Player" S. S. Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal (February, 1893 and other issues...)
- Berlin, Ira
- Combs, Josiah
- Conway, Cecilia
- Dubois, Laurent
- Epstein, Dena
"The Folk Banjo: A Documentary History" Ethnomusicology19, no. 3 (1975)
- Fischer, David
- Gibson, George
"Black Banjo, Fiddle and Dance in Kentucky and the Amalgamation of African American and Anglo-American Folk Music" Banjo Roots and Banches edited by Robert Winans (2018)
- Gura, Phillip & James Bollman
- Hopkin, Rachel (.pdf attached below)
"Countering Cultural Strip-Mining in Eastern Kentucky: Music Making as Cultural Reconstruction" Western Folklore Magazine (Winter, 2016-2017)
- Irwin, John
- Linn, Karen
- Merritt, Keri Leigh
- Morgan, Philip
- Robert, Leonard
- Rosenbaum, Arthur
Old-Time Mountain Banjo (1968)
- Sommerville, Diane Miller
- Tallmadge, William
"The Folk Banjo and Clawhammer Performance Practice in the Upper South: A Study of Origins" The Appalachian Experience edited by Barry M. Buxton Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium (1983)
- Wigginton, Eliot
Foxfire 6 (1980)
Foxfire 3 (1975)
- Winans, Robert
Banjo Roots and Branches (2018)
Thanks Clif. I really love reading banjo history and history in general. This made my day. 🪕
So much great knowledge to be had