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'''POMPEY RAN AWAY.''' American, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, perhaps the earliest extent attributed to African-Americans, appears in Glasgow publisher James Aird’s '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1'''), 1782, No. 163, p. 57), labelled a “Negroe Jig”. | '''POMPEY RAN AWAY.''' American, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, perhaps the earliest extent attributed to African-Americans, appears in Glasgow publisher James Aird’s '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1'''), 1782, No. 163, p. 57), labelled a “Negroe Jig”. Hans Nathan has described it as "one of the earliest blends of European and primitive melodies," and describes it as a collaboration between a British visitor transcribing it from a transplanted African source. | ||
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See/hear Timothy Twiss play the tune on fretless banjo on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg0emZFmeU8]<br> | |||
Read an interesting ethnomusicological piece, "From Akonting to Banjo: A Story of Musical Colonialism and Cultural Appropriation" [https://amadouandmariammakeba.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/47/]<br> | |||
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POMPEY RAN AWAY. American, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, perhaps the earliest extent attributed to African-Americans, appears in Glasgow publisher James Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782, No. 163, p. 57), labelled a “Negroe Jig”. Hans Nathan has described it as "one of the earliest blends of European and primitive melodies," and describes it as a collaboration between a British visitor transcribing it from a transplanted African source.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Johnson (A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century), 1998; p. 15.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
See/hear Timothy Twiss play the tune on fretless banjo on youtube.com [1]
Read an interesting ethnomusicological piece, "From Akonting to Banjo: A Story of Musical Colonialism and Cultural Appropriation" [2]