banjo - 2023 ARCADIA at RIT

Question

Musician and scholar Daniel Jatta proposed the akonting as a likely ancestor of this modern instrument based on a similar playing style and shared features like a full-spike neck and M-shaped bridge. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this string instrument that developed from West African instruments brought to the Americas by enslaved peoples. Its predominant use by African Americans spurred its popularity in minstrel shows.

ANSWER: banjo

[10m] The akonting’s o’teck strumming technique is similar to this modern banjo playing style. This style uses a “bum-ditty” strum pattern and is contrasted with the three-finger style pioneered by Earl Scruggs.

ANSWER: clawhammer [or frailing or down-picking or overhand]

[10h] This composer’s piano piece The Banjo is believed to document missing stylistic links between West African plucked lute and modern banjo playing. This composer also wrote Bamboula and La savane.

ANSWER: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

<EG, Auditory Fine Arts>

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2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	10.00	67%	0%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	N	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


RIT	Cornell MATLAB	10	10	0	20
Cornell R	Syracuse+Rochester	10	0	10	20