Kristina R. Gaddy is the author of Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis. She has received the Parsons Fund Award, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellowship, and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Rubys Artist Grant. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Atlas Obscura, among other publications. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
"For the very first time, a reader’s version of a few of the
earliest written observations of the instrument are on full display
in the thoughtful and masterful writing of this book. This
book is not only made for the banjo enthusiast but it opens a new
window into 17th, 18th and 19th century world history on the ground
level by those who lived it and observed the strange new cultural
connections brought by a brutal plantation
system.[...] Kristina Gaddy’s observations lead the reader
back into the 21st century to contend and reanalyze the crooked
road of America’s musical past."
*Dom Flemons, the American songster and Grammy Award–winning
musician*
"Beguiling… [Gaddy] weaves her story together from sources
including paintings, diaries and letters, and tells it
chronologically. In a less daring writer’s hands, this might have
become a slog, but Ms. Gaddy successfully blends archival skills
with imagination."
*The Economist*
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