The creolization of American culture : : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / / Christopher J. Smith.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Urbana : : University of Illinois Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Music in American life
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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.