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The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy Hardcover - 2013
by Christopher J. Smith
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- Title The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
- Author Christopher J. Smith
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date 2013-08
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780252037764 / 0252037766
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.43 x 1.05 in (24.23 x 16.33 x 2.67 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Blackface entertainers - United States, Minstrel music - United States - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012050436
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.640
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New. The Creolization of American Culture 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 multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners. Looking closely at the bodies and instruments Mount depicts in his paintings as well as other ephemera, Christopher J. Smith traces the performance practices of African American and Anglo-European…
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