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Author:
Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959- author.
Title:
The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / Christopher J. Smith.
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xvii, 314 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Minstrel music--United States--History and criticism.
Minstrel shows--United States--History.
Mount, William Sidney,--1807-1868.
Blackface entertainers--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Music in American life
ISBN:
0252037766 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252037764 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)824532539
LCCN:
2012050436
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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