Creolization of American Culture - William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy

Christopher J. Smith is an associate professor and chair of musicology/ethnomusicology and the director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. A working musician, he also performs, records, and tours internationally with the medieval music ensemble Altramar and other bands specializing in Irish traditional music and pre-World War II blues and jazz.

About the author

Christopher J. Smith is an associate professor and chair of musicology/ethnomusicology and the director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. A working musician, he also performs, records, and tours internationally with the medieval music ensemble Altramar and other bands specializing in Irish traditional music and pre-World War II blues and jazz.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher J Smith, Christopher J. Smith
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2014
• EAN: 9780252080524
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08052-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Music in American Life (Paperb; Music in American Life
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory