Blacksound : making race and popular music in the United States /
"Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of 'Blacksound' to uncover how the po...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of 'Blacksound' to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States took shape during slavery out of blackface. 'Blacksound' as an idea is not the music or sounds produced by Black Americans but instead the material and fleeting remnants of their sounds and performances that have been co-opted and amalgamated into the making of popular music. Morrison unpacks the relationship between performance, racial identity, and intellectual property to reveal how blackface minstrelsy scripts became absorbed into commercial entertainment through an unequal system of intellectual property and copyright laws. By introducing this foundational new concept in musicology, Blacksound highlights what is politically at stake--and for whom--in revisiting the long history of American popular music"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Roth Family Foundation imprint in music." |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 304 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | Choice Outstanding Academic Titles: LC Class: M, 2024 ; Prose Award For Excellence in Humanities, 2025 ; Prose Award. Music & the Performing Arts, 2025 ; ARSC: Best Research in Recorded Blues,Soul,Gospel, 2025 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520390577 0520390571 9780520390591 0520390598 |