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Whether you're a new picker or an experienced player looking for new ideas and styles, this guide have everything you need. From choosing a banjo that's right for you to advanced right- and left-hand techniques, you'll find advice and examples to help you enhance your playing.

"An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from...