Posted on 02/12/2005 9:52:39 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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oops, thanks again Solitas, is what I meant to do.
I their musical instrument of choice a banjo?
I have an aunt (born in Rockastle County, Kentucky) that I believe to be one of these people. She's very Portuguese-looking.
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I guess "horror" is in the eye of the beholder (or in the opinion of the author)...
Sometimes it’s easier to make an assumption than to actually look into something.
Banjos belong to a family of instruments that are very old. Drums with strings stretched over them can be traced throughout the Far East, the Middle East and Africa almost from the beginning.
They can be played like the banjo, bowed or plucked like a harp depending on their development.
These instruments were spread, in "modern" times, to Europe through the Arab conquest of Spain, and the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans.
The banjo, as we can begin to recognize it, was made by African slaves based on instruments that were indigenous to their parts of Africa. These early "banjos" were spread to the colonies of those countries engaged in the slave trade.
Scholars have found that many of these instruments have names that are related to the modern word "banjo", such as "banjar", "banjil", "banza", "bangoe", "bangie", "banshaw".
Some historians mention the diaries of Richard Jobson as the first record of the instrument.. While exploring the Gambra River in Africa in 1620 he recorded an instrument "...made of a great gourd and a neck, thereunto was fastened strings."
The first mention of the name for these instruments in the Western Hemisphere is from Martinique in a document dated 1678. It mentions slave gatherings where an instrument called the "banza" is used.
Further mentions are fairly frequent and documented. One such is quoted in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians from a poem by an Englishman in the British West Indies in 1763: "Permit thy slaves to lead the choral dance/To the wild banshaw's melancholy sound/".
The best known is probably that of Thomas Jefferson in 1781: "The instrument proper to them (i.e. the slaves) is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa."
Some times "yama", mulingani (Sicilian dialect).
Pronounced moo lin yam
Slang for Negroid. Don't ask me how I know.
Watch the scene in True Romance where Dennis Hopper is being interrogated by Mafioso Christopher Walken. Really funny in a very dark way.
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I never knew what the Father did except it had something to do with Horses, Football, and odds, a relative of my exes, Polish Mafia, you have to know Lynn to understand that.
To me the sound was MOO LIG ( Hard G) YHANN, My step father, family from Naples, says they are all Turks, can't speak Italian and are definitely not Italian, along with the Germans North of Florence, and the Spanish usurpers.
There is a link on WETS-FM that I want to post, but can't open the page, and have to go to work.
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