Ring the Banjar: The Banjo in America from Folklore to Factory

This is an older, but excellent brief history of the banjo, and the various Boston banjo builders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are also many fine illustrations in BW an color.of banjos in the book. The historical essay by Robert Loyd Webb is very informative and well documented, and illustrated. This book was originally published as a guide to a museum exhibit at the MIT museum. It is definitely a book for banjo history buffs, but it's a nice little gem. I liked it very much, as any banjo buff would.

See my other review for a much better book on the subject.

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Among the very few available resources on early banjos I rank this book very highly.Essentially the catalog of the 1984 banjo exhibition at the MIT Museum, it presents Webb's informative and highly readable brief history of the banjo, and more. I love looking at the excellent photographs of early players, ephemera and banjos from the exhibition, but my favorite part of the book by far is Jim Bollman's information packed section entitled "The Banjomakers of Boston".This book has proven a reliable and surprisingly complete compilation of hard to find information. I highly recommend it to banjo collectors, historians, players of vintage banjos and anybody interested in the story of "America's instrument" and how it came to be.

初期のバンジョーについては珍しい写真などもあってそれなりに充実していたが、最近のことは、フォークではないということか、記述がなく当てが外れた。