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Creolization of American Culture:

William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
  • ISBN-13: 9780252037764
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Christopher J Smith
  • Price: AUD $102.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2013
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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This study examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. Christopher J. Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The ''Africanization'' of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical ''creole synthesis,'' a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music.
A dazzling addition to the literature on American popular music and its history. The Creolization of American Culture is fresh, vital, compelling, and deeply pertinent to understanding a world in which we yet live.--Dale Cockrell, author of Demons of Disorder:  Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World
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