The Creolization of American Culture : William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mount, William Sidney, > 1807-1868.
Minstrel shows.
Minstrel music.
Blackface entertainers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Blackface (Artistes du spectacle) > États-Unis.
Spectacles de menestrels (Theâtre americain) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Musique de menestrels (Theâtre americain) > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Blackface entertainers > United States.
Minstrel shows > United States > History.
Minstrel music > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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
  • Conclusion : the Creole synthesis in American culture.

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