The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / / Christopher J. Smith
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 781.640973/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Minstrel music - United States - History and criticism |
| Minstrel shows - United States - History | |
| Blackface entertainers - United States | |
| Blackface | |
| Racism against Black people | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The creolization of American culture |
| ISBN: | 0-252-08052-1 |
| 0-252-09504-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789469503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Music in American life.