Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1449955 Composed by Stephen Foster. Arranged by Thomas G Degan. 19th Century,A Cappella,Early Music,Folk,Historic. 2 pages. Thomas Degan #1029685. Published by Thomas Degan (A0.1449955). Ring, Ring de Banjo is a minstrel song written in 1851. The song's words and music are from Stephen Foster. THIS ARRANGEMENT HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH AND DOES NOT INCLUDE REFERENCES TO SLAVERY OR DEROGATORY RACIAL TERMS.The song, (originally) written to mimic the dialect of Black people in the Southern United States, is about a newly-freed slave who wishes to come back to his master's plantation. As his old master is dying, the singer plays the banjo on his old master's deathbed until he dies. It is one of minstrelsy's most explicit evocations of the potentially violent relationship in slavery between master and slave and inspired a number of imitators, including the abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. -Wikipedia.
