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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818410203321

Autore

Smith Christopher J (Christopher John), <1959->

Titolo

The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / / Christopher J. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-252-08052-1

0-252-09504-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Music in American life

Disciplina

781.640973/09034

Soggetti

Minstrel music - United States - History and criticism

Minstrel shows - United States - History

Blackface entertainers - United States

Blackface

Racism against Black people

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.