http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:11:22 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/02/18/080110.php#comment-699814 If you're still following this thread, please contact me at wizardtradingcompanyATyahooDOTcom, so we can continue this discussion offline. 699814@blogcritics.org Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:11:22 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/02/18/080110.php#comment-696612 The best resource would be Africa Banjo Echoes in Appalachia by Cece Conway. There is an accompanying CD called Black Songster of NC and VA put out by Smithstonian folkways. Also read go the WPA Slave narrative websites and do a search for "fiddle" and/or "banjo". Old Time music as we know it today held on longer in the mountains than other places in the South (even this is not agreed upon) but that should not be confused with its point of origin. 696612@blogcritics.org Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:57:54 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/02/18/080110.php#comment-696508 Please point me to a reference that supports your statements. I'd like to get this straight for myself, as much as for the article. My reading supports what I put in the article, but if it's not correct, I want to correct the article. Thanks. 696508@blogcritics.org Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:37:17 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/02/18/080110.php#comment-696386 There is a slight inaccuracy in your article. This type of music did not originate in the Western parts of NC and VA. Earliest references to the fiddle and banjo being played together are on plantations, almost all of which were in the Piedmont/Coastal Plain/Tidewater/Lowcountry of the South. As these areas were settled first and the mountains subsequently, the music most likely spread from the more settled areas to the least settled regions, ie the mountains. 696386@blogcritics.org Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:53:54 EST