The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:Music in American life
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.