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

By: Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-Material type: TextTextSeries: Music in American lifePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780252095047Subject(s): Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868 | Minstrel music -- United States -- History and criticism | Minstrel shows -- United States -- History | Blackface entertainers -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy.DDC classification: 781.640973/09034 LOC classification: ML1711 | .S63 2013Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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