Ossman was one of the most recorded musicians of According to Allen Koenigsberg's Edison Cylinder discography, Will Lyle made 50 banjo records on Ossman was not the first banjoist to record. He made his first recordings for the Edison company on brown wax cylinder in 1893. He played five-string banjo in classical (guitar) Ossman was born Sylvester Louis Ossman in Hudson, New York in 1868. Even the stuffiest classical concert banjoist knew to encore with "Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground." The banjo, with its acknowledged black origins, served as a useful symbol of musical Pastoral visions of pre-modern life - simple, uncomplicated and stable, soothed fears of progress and change. A longing for home, sweet home began to be felt in songs and stories of the era. Little farming towns were turning into industrial cities, sometimes virtually overnight.įormerly agrarian people were leaving the southern plantations in droves for northern factory work and prosperity. The late 19th and early 20th century was a time of mechanization, factories, steam power,Īnd railroads. Many people had about the overall good of progress. This nostalgic aspect resonated with the doubts that
Why was the banjo relegated thereafter to dixieland and bluegrass, two of the most conservative musical styles ever to arise? Specifically, what were the cultural forces underlying this change of fashion?Įven as the banjo was gaining respectability much to the delight of the banjo manufacturing and music publishing industry, the instrument was still associated with a kind jazz and dance bands) in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Nonetheless I titled my presentation "The banjo and guitar in transition: the 1920s and 30s." My aim in this essay is to explain the process by which the banjo largely disappeared from the musical mainstream (i.e. I am certainly no expert on guitars, banjos, or the jazz and dance bands of the 1920s and 1930s. I decided that this group might enjoy something on the banjo and guitar, subjects on which I have some knowledge and some playing ability. I have been a member of CAPS since January of last year, and whenever I can, I attend their meetings at the Centennial College campus.
I was asked to put together an hour-long presentation to a group primarily composed of 78 and cylinder record collectors and aficionados and home repairers of wind-up record players from the Edison Home cylinder machine to the sumptuous Victor Victrola "Credenza" model.
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