Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fogel and Engerman thesis, rather weirdly cheerful, seemed a relapse back to something like the banjo school. It brought a fusillade of rebuttal, most of it convincing. Fogel and Engerman argued that blacks were willing collaborators in an un fair but workable capitalist system: owners got free labor, blacks got economic rewards and family stability if they played along...
...tradition begun by that distant ancestor Kunte Kinte, each child in the successive generations in Haley's family was told the family history, which by Haley's time had been pared down considerably. He remembers his grandmother referring to their ancestor, "the African," who called the banjo "ko," the river "Kamby Bolongo," and who was out chopping wood for a drum at the age of 16 when four white slave traders kidnapped him and brought him to the United States...
Actor George Segal plays a mean banjo, as he demonstrated last week at a party for his new film, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox. Trouble is, he doesn't gamble, shoot or ride horses, skills he needed for his part as a shady-dealing frontier cardsharp in the movie. So last year, while George was on location with the film in Colorado, the studio recruited a professional cardsharp from Las Vegas to teach him how to cut the deck, and some genuine cowboys to school him in horseplay. He seemed a natural for the saddle; after all, recalled...
Joplin's musical genius was enormous and precocious. He was born in 1868 at Texarkana into a family that took music as its birthright. The father, a laborer, played the violin; the mother sang and picked banjo. Joplin started out on the guitar and bugle, but at age seven discovered the piano and was soon teaching himself to improvise...
Daniel, Bridget and I followed Peg up to his tiny, one-room cabin. A loaded shot-gun and squat, scoped hunting rifle hung over the door, a long-necked banjo and the Thompson over the bed. Peg turned on his tape deck, gave Peanut a piece of licorice, and pulled out the Thompson's clip: 90 rounds a minute of bloated, stumpy bullets. Peanut cried and Pegleg picked his banjo and Daniel got down on the floor where the child was and then wasn't when her mother picked her up, and said how she had the life and wasn...