{"id":163,"date":"2014-08-14T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:29:33","slug":"re-sounding-banjos-david-deacon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=163","title":{"rendered":"Re-Sounding Banjos: David Deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sept-flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"782\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-355\" alt=\"Sept flyer\" src=\"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sept-flyer-791x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sept-flyer-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sept-flyer-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sept-flyer.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David Deacon is a historian, folklorist, and musician.&nbsp; Raised in the folk music revival in Philadelphia in the 1970s, he has played clawhammer banjo since 1974, and also plays Irish tenor banjo, fiddle, and guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Deacon&#8217;s talk and performance will cover the banjo in early popular and country music.&nbsp; He will focus particularly on clawhammer banjo, but will touch on other styles including thumb lead two finger style, Charlie Poole\u2019s three finger style, and Earl Scruggs\u2019s three finger style.<\/p>\n<p>As a historian and folklorist, Deacon is particularly interested in the early history of the banjo, and the development of minstrel and related traditional styles of playing.&nbsp; He also explores the development of the banjo as an object, focusing on how banjo players and builders have adapted and tinkered with the instrument since its emergence in the 1830s.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he is interested in how recorded music from the 1920s and 1930s, later recordings of traditional musicians, and published sources informs his and other banjo players&#8217; playing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; David Deacon is a historian, folklorist, and musician.&nbsp; Raised in the folk music revival in Philadelphia in the 1970s, he has played clawhammer banjo since 1974, and also plays Irish tenor banjo, fiddle, and guitar. Deacon&#8217;s talk and performance will cover the banjo in early popular and country music.&nbsp; He will focus particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Re-Sounding Banjos: David Deacon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":337,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/459"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjustic.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}