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"Washboard Bill" Cooke playing a "banjo uke" at the Florida Folk Festival- White Springs, Florida
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Series 1577, Florida Folk Festival 1995 ; Box 20, FF 18
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Ethnicity, African American
Performing arts
Popular music
Folk music
Instrumentalists
Banjoists
Banjo ukulele
Plucked instruments
Musical instruments
Music--Performance
African American musicians
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
African American men--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Special events
Folklore revival festivals--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Folk festivals--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Festivals--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
African American boys--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
General Note
The instrument Cooke is playing is a quite uncommon hybrid instrument called a gbsbanjo ukegcs. It is part banjo and part ukulele.
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Chicago Manual of Style
Mansfield, William, Collector. "Washboard Bill" Cooke playing a "banjo uke" at the Florida Folk Festival- White Springs, Florida. 1995. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/105821>, accessed 25 December 2024.
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Mansfield, William, Collector. "Washboard Bill" Cooke playing a "banjo uke" at the Florida Folk Festival- White Springs, Florida. 1995. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/105821>
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(State Archives of Florida/Mansfield)