{"id":192,"date":"2014-10-13T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega-dev\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2014-11-06T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:31:23","slug":"music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/research\/music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/files\/banjowomeninwestvirginiaandeasternkentucky.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Banjo Women in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky <\/a><br \/>\nIn the fall of 1997, we began our search for women banjo players in Appalachia; primarily in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. Our equipment was light\u2014a Marantz tape recorder and a Nikon camera. Our intellectual baggage weighed even less\u2014anecdotal evidence that Appalachian women had historically played what is considered to be America\u2019s first musical instrument. I had read the two major monographs on the banjo available at the time: Karen Linn\u2019s That Half-Barbaric Twang, and Cecilia Conway\u2019s Black Banjo Echoes in Appalachia, neither of which included banjo women in the southern mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banjo Women in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky In the fall of 1997, we began our search for women banjo players in Appalachia; primarily in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. Our equipment was light\u2014a Marantz tape recorder and a Nikon camera. Our intellectual baggage weighed even less\u2014anecdotal evidence that Appalachian women had historically played what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"parent":132,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/csega\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}