The Banjo on Record: A Bio-Discography

(Hardback)

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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. The discography is organised by performer or performing group and the recordings are listed chronologically with location, date, matrix number and take-digit, manufacturer and catalogue number, and biographical information on the banjoist as available. The volume also includes narrative histories of the instrument and its recordings, information on types of banjos, a bibliography, a title index and historic label reproductions.

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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

Author Bio

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.