The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / Christopher J. Smith.
| Uniform Title: | Music in American life.
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 314 pages : illustrations. |
| Format: | Book |
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.