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Autore |
Smith Christopher J (Christopher John), <1959-> |
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Titolo |
The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / / Christopher J. Smith |
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Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-252-08052-1 |
0-252-09504-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Minstrel music - United States - History and criticism |
Minstrel shows - United States - History |
Blackface entertainers - United States |
Blackface |
Racism against Black people |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work 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 multi-ethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. |
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