http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/ Black Banjo Then and Now Fri, 16 May 2008 22:05:07 GMT suleness@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12141 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12141 Hey, "colonizing' re "Colonized".....IDK. Am I correct to assume that Japan got on the goose-stepping-downbeat parade with Okinawa after it absorbed Western Fri, 16 May 2008 18:46:29 GMT fruteland http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12140 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12140 Thank you for the generous response. My cup runneth over.I will repost the pictures as a pdf entittled "The Old Man".I appreciste your posT and having this Fri, 16 May 2008 18:01:13 GMT Greg Adams http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12139 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12139 Howard, What a meaningful perspective. I've not heard downbeat/backbeat presented in quite this way. Briefly skimming the article with the link you provided, I Fri, 16 May 2008 17:31:53 GMT Howard Clark http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12138 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12138 I was reminded recently of something Bob Brozman has said many times about backbeat, so I looked it up on his website, I found this under "Deep Rhythm" and I Fri, 16 May 2008 14:04:59 GMT Tony http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12137 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12137 I was hoping the small history i gave and the name Adkins would draw a connection. ... As far as I know while there were many African Americans who Fri, 16 May 2008 11:53:18 GMT Tony http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12136 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12136 This is not an intrusion, it is just that we are limited in the amount of space we can have and operate this list, something Yahoo doesnt really inform people Fri, 16 May 2008 03:26:51 GMT suleness@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12135 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12135 I think the name "Adkins" is a common name among Lumbee and Edisto Indians in the Carolinas, groups with a large AfrAm blood quantum.... SGW ... That was what Thu, 15 May 2008 20:32:01 GMT fruteland http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12134 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12134 ... That was what i was attempting to to discover. I was hoping the small history i gave and the name Adkins would draw a connection.I get your point and Thu, 15 May 2008 20:23:03 GMT Tony http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12133 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12133 ... http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/web/index.htm lfiles ... Please upload the file in a reasonably small size, not nearly 1 mega Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:52 GMT Tony http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12132 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12132 ... More appropriate places to raise this query are http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BANJOCOM/ a group that contains some of the top buyers and sellers and Thu, 15 May 2008 18:09:53 GMT fruteland http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12131 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12131 I was given a Banjo by a woman 15 years ago. She was 65 years old and died 2 weeks before she retired. The Banjo belonged to her father who was in his 80;s. Thu, 15 May 2008 18:05:16 GMT http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12130 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12130 Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the BlackBanjo group. File : /The Old Man Thu, 15 May 2008 18:00:05 GMT http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12129 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12129 Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the BlackBanjo group. File : /The Old Thu, 15 May 2008 11:53:15 GMT Tony http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12128 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12128 What kind of banjo playing do you do in the jug band. It seems most jug bands and blues bands a larger category that jug bands used played four-string tenor Thu, 15 May 2008 11:22:45 GMT writerrad@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12127 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/message/12127 Lost Sounds: Blacks & the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 is more about the history of the recording industry and of the narrow profile of African