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crln-7898	Eberhart, George M.	New Publications	2007	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1177	58	65	Silver and Gold Mining Camps of the Old West, by Sandy Nestor (269 pages, January 2007), rescues some elusive facts and fi gures about Western mines and mining camps from the tailings of industrial history. The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy, by Bob Carlin (193 pag­ es, February 2007), recounts the life and in­ George M. Eberhart is senior editor of American Libraries, e-mail: geberhart@ala.org fluence of Joel Walker Sweeney (1810–1860), the Elvis Presley of the 1840s as Carlin calls him, an Irish American who brought the Afri­ can­American banjo and slave songs to white audiences through the medium of blackface minstrelsy—the first national form of Ameri­ can musical theater.	cache/crln-7898.pdf	txt/crln-7898.txt