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Art
Rosenbaum
Art Rosenbaum of Athens,
Georgia, has been
collecting, studying, and
performing traditional
American music for over 35
years. He sings and plays
5-string banjo, fiddle,
guitar, harmonica, and mouth
bow. His repertoire, much of
it learned first-hand in the
course of his field work,
ranges for Appalachian banjo
tunes and ballads through
Southern and Midwestern
fiddle tunes to blues and
spirituals.
An authority on traditional
banjo styles, Rosenbaum
wrote two instructional
books on the banjo, the
influential Old-Time
Mountain Banjo (Oak
Publications, 1968) and The
Art of the Mountain Banjo
(Kicking Mule, 1975). He was
a teacher/performer at all
three semi-annual sessions
of the Tennessee Banjo
Institute. He is also author
of Folk Visions and Voices:
Traditional Music and Song
in North Georgia (University
of Georgia Press, 1983)
which also features his
drawings and paintings and
Margo Newmark Rosenbaum's
photographs. Art and Margo
Rosenbaum have collaborated
on a second book, Shout
Because You're Free; The
Ring Shout and Its Survival
in a Georgia Coastal
Community, released by the
University of Georgia Press
in 1998. Art Rosenbaum is a
regular recording and book
reviewer for The Old Time
Herald and he and his wife
were featured in an article
in that magazine in 1995.
Art was director of the
University of Georgia
Festival of North Georgia
Traditional Music and Dance
on the occasion of the 1996
Olympic Games.
Books
The Art of the Mountain Banjo
- Book/CD
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