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Theme code Index	15L11 2220
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	B
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 12
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
Artist
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X:1
T:Alabama Joe
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 12)
N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848.  It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff 
N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character.  The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. 
N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:Bb
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