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Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens
Item #:
9781469690575
Price:
$19.95
For the first time, this groundbreaking songbook collaboration
by music writer Kristina R. Gaddy and Grammy Award winner
Rhiannon Giddens makes nineteen examples of early Black
Atlantic music accessible and playable for today’s musicians,
music enthusiasts, and historians. Presenting music from 1687
through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature,
along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens
take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the
Americas.
Immensely readable for amateurs and professionals alike, Go
Back and Fetch It explains the significance of early Black
Atlantic music and how the patterns of tunings, melodic lines,
and lyrics shed light on the impact that Black American music
has had on nineteenth-century popular music, early country, old
time, and bluegrass. Each tune pairs with an engaging essay on
its historical background and how the tune transformed over
time, as well as information about the collector. Deeply
researched and carefully approached, this essential source
restores the roots of Black music to the musical canon.
Book, 120 pages.
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