The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:	Music in American life.
Subjects:	Minstrel music > United States > History and criticism. Minstrel shows > United States > History. Blackface entertainers > United States. Mount, William Sidney, > 1807-1868.

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.