Foreword by by Brian Rust Preface The Banjo in Phonograph Recording History by Lowell Schreyer Confidence and Admiration: The Enduring Ringing of the Banjo by Robert Lloyd Webb A Quick Look at the Banjo Family Discography Addenda and Corrigenda Bibliography Index to Titles
Heier documents the recording history of the banjo on cylinders and 78-rpm disks from 1889 to the beginning of the LP era in the mid-1950s, offering a comprehensive compilation of all such recordings on which the banjo plays a solo role or dominant part.
ULI HEIER is working for the German SPD parliamentary group. He is coeditor and copublisher of the German non-commercial newsletter Banjo Podium. RAINER E. LOTZ is an engineer, economist, development banker, publisher, and university lecturer, employed as Head of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation. He has edited albums of gramophone recordings and authored books on ragtime, jazz, radio broadcasting, black history, and individual musicians as well as articles in scholarly journals. He was a special adviser to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, to which he contributed numerous articles.
?Absolutely everything that can be known about the banjo is
included in this book. Those who want to know anything about the
banjo have ample opportunity here to learn it. Don't drop this
instrument!?-Reviews in Popular Culture/American Cultures
Studies
"Absolutely everything that can be known about the banjo is
included in this book. Those who want to know anything about the
banjo have ample opportunity here to learn it. Don't drop this
instrument!"-Reviews in Popular Culture/American Cultures Studies
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