The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy /
Smith, Christopher J. 1959-
The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / Christopher J. Smith. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource. - Music in American life .
Includes bibliographies 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.
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.
9780252095047
2019718063
Minstrel music--History and criticism.--United States
Minstrel shows--History.--United States
Blackface entertainers--United States.
Electronic Books.
ML1711 / .C746 2013
The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / Christopher J. Smith. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource. - Music in American life .
Includes bibliographies 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.
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.
9780252095047
2019718063
Minstrel music--History and criticism.--United States
Minstrel shows--History.--United States
Blackface entertainers--United States.
Electronic Books.
ML1711 / .C746 2013