Re: West Afrikan Akonting lute musik Old Time Herald web site

"Ulf Jägfors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

 Sam Charters has been my guest in my hose this fall and admits that
> he perhaps took a hasten wrong standpoint in his book Roots of the Blues
> about the Griot music as the forefather of the banjo music. Time will give
> me right in this matter

What I remember most clearly about Charters's book (and it's been
quite a few years since I read it) is that he didn't find anything out
about the "roots of the blues" in his travels, although he did learn a
lot about the ability of backwoods people to fix automobiles, and made
interesting observations on the economics of train-based commerce.

> 
> J is pronounced as Y like in the name Yeager or Japan both in Sweden and
> West Africa ( by all languages). Lofgren spelled with umlaut, two dots, for
> the O is a rather common name in Sweden.

I've made 2 trips to Sweden to visit relatives, and I notice that the
Americanized spelling and pronunciation puzzles many Swedes. They
don't recognize it as being the same as the umlauted Swedish name. The
famous welcoming inscription on the Statue of Liberty (which employees
of the Immigration & Naturalization Service are forbidden to read)
should have the addition "but drop all your umlautted vowels and any
name that ends in 'czynskyj' and all those extra S's in names like
Swensson."

Lyle