Smith, Christopher J.  1959- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252095047 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019718063 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Minstrel music--History and criticism.--United States<br/>Minstrel shows--History.--United States<br/>Blackface entertainers--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML1711  / .C746 2013