The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / Christopher J. Smith.
Series: Music in American lifePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252037764 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252095047 (e-book)
- 781.640973/09034 23
- ML1711 .S63 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.
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