Sujet

Banjo created for Charles P. Stinson, late19th centruy. Creator: John H. Buckbee.

Légende

Charles P. Stinson’s minstrel credits include working with Callinder's Georgia Minstrels, the World's Minstrels, and Harvey and Frohman's Minstrel Companies as a banjo player, actor, and drum major. He made his name through banjo competitions though, notably in an 1888 competition in Kansas City when he beat eleven white competitors to become the first known African American to win such a competition in a southern state.;After touring through the 1880s, Stinson returned to Pittsburgh and set up a studio teaching amateur musicians. He taught parlor music to his middle-class students eager to join banjo, mandolin, and guitar orchestras playing arrangements of popular songs. Through his role as a teacher, Stinson also sold student-level banjos to his students. This banjo likely made by J.H. Buckbee in New York was the result of a collaboration between Stinson and Buckbee to create banjos for Stinson to assemble and distribute to his students; a common arrangement in the late nineteenth century as the instrument became popular.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A74_048

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

131,4Mo (1,9Mo) / 48,5cm x 67,9cm / 5728 x 8019 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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