Editing Banjo (section)

=== Banjo history ===

* Castelnero, Gordon and Russell, David L. ''Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon.'' Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

* Conway, Cecelia (1995). ''African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions'', University of Tennessee Press. Paper: {{ISBN|0-87049-893-2}}; cloth: {{ISBN|0-87049-892-4}}. A study of the influence of African Americans on banjo playing throughout U.S. history.
* De Smaele G. (1983). "Banjo a cinq cordes". Brussels: Musée Instrumental (MIM), Brussels. D 1983-2170-1
* De Smaele G. (2015). "Banjo Attitudes." Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
* De Smaele G. (2019). "A Five-String Banjo Sourcebook." Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019.
* Dubois, Laurent (2016). ''The Banjo: America's African Instrument.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
* Epstein, Dena (1977). ''Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War''. University of Illinois Press, 2003. Winner of the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association, 1979. Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. The anniversary edition of a classic study of black slave music in America.
* Gaddy, Kristina (2022). ''Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. {{ISBN|978-0393866803}}. The author uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. 
* Gibson, George R. (2018). "Black Banjo, Fiddle and Dance in Kentucky and the Amalgamation of African American and Anglo-American Folk Music." ''Banjo Roots and Branches''(Winans, 2018). University of Illinois Press, 2018. Gibson's historiographic chapter uncovers much new information about black banjo and fiddle players, and dance, in Kentucky, and their influence on white musicians, from the 1780s.
* Gura, Philip F. and James F. Bollman (1999). ''America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century''. The University of North Carolina Press. {{ISBN|0-8078-2484-4}}. The definitive history of the banjo, focusing on the instrument's development in the 1800s.
* Katonah Museum of Art (2003). ''The Birth of the Banjo''. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York. {{ISBN|0-915171-64-3}}.
* Linn, Karen (1994). ''That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture''. University of Illinois Press. {{ISBN|0-252-06433-X}}. Scholarly cultural history of the banjo, focusing on how its image has evolved over the years.
* Tsumura, Akira (1984). ''Banjos: The Tsumura Collection''. Kodansha International Ltd. {{ISBN|0-87011-605-3}}. An illustrated history of the banjo featuring the world's premier collection.
* Webb, Robert Lloyd (1996). ''Ring the Banjar!''. 2nd edition. Centerstream Publishing. {{ISBN|1-57424-016-1}}. A short history of the banjo, with pictures from an exhibition at the MIT Museum.
* Winans, Robert (2018). ''Banjo Roots and Branches''. University of Illinois Press, 2018. The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States.