TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Christopher J.
TI  - The creolization of American culture: William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy 
T2  - Music in American life
SN  - 9780252095047
AV  - ML1711 .C746 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Minstrel music
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Minstrel shows
KW  - History
KW  - Blackface entertainers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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