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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.

Blackface entertainers --- Minstrel shows --- Minstrel music --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- American minstrelsy --- Blackface minstrelsy --- Ethiopian operas (Minstrel music) --- Ethiopian songs (Minstrel music) --- Minstrel songs --- Minstrelsy, American --- Minstrelsy, Blackface --- Operas, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Songs, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Popular music --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Mount, William Sidney, --- Blackface --- Racism against Black people --- Anti-Black racism --- Antiblack racism --- Racism against Blacks --- Black people --- Impersonation --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows --- Minstrelsy --- American minstrel music --- Minstrel show songs --- Blackface. --- Racism against Black people.

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Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music -- Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun -- and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States. The book is divided into discrete chapters covering topics as seemingly disparate as sacred harp singing, conjunto music, the folk revival, blues, and ballad singing. It is among the few textbooks in American music that recognizes the importance and contributions of Native American as well as those who live, sing, and perform music along our borderlands, from the French speaking citizens in northern Vermont to the extensive Hispanic population living north of the Rio Grande River, recognizing and reflecting the increasing importance of the varied Latino traditions that have informed our folk music since the founding of the United States. Another chapter includes detailed information about the roots of hip hop and this new edition features a new chapter on urban folk music, exploring traditions in our cities, with a case study focusing on Washington D.C. Exploring American Folk Music also introduces you to such important figures in American music as Bob Wills, Lydia Mendoza, Bob Dylan, and Muddy Waters, who helped shape what America sounds like in the 21st century. It also features new sections at the end of each chapter with up-to-date recommendations for "Selected Listening," "Suggested Reading," and "Suggested Viewing."

Folk music --- Popular music --- Blackface --- Racism against Black people --- History and criticism.

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The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. ""Coon songs,"" with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses. Though the name itself is offensive to modern ears, it is impossible to investigate black popular entertainment of the ragtime era without directly confronting the ""coon songs"" which cleared the way for the ""original blues."". In Ragged but Right Lynn Abbot

African Americans --- Minstrel shows --- Tent shows --- Sideshows --- Blackface --- Racism against Black people --- Music --- History and criticism. --- History.

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A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War.

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"Before Sophie Tucker "corked up" to entertain her audiences with ragtime songs in Negro dialect, and before Fanny Brice stumbled into the footlights in her rendition of the "Dying Swan," May Irwin (1862-1938) was the reigning queen of comedy and "coon" songs on the American stage. This project, the first serious study of May Irwin, traces the comedic performer's colorful and successful career and also examines the strategies that Irwin employed to maintain both popularity and power while stepping far outside traditionally defined boundaries of late nineteenth-century womanhood. Ammen considers the content and style of Irwin's comedy; her repertoire and status as a "coon shouter"; her position as a celebrated cook and homemaker; and her social and political activities. Irwin's career began as a singing act with her younger sister, Flora, when May was 12. The Irwin Sisters achieved enough success over the next few years to gain a regular spot at Tony Pastor's popular theatre in New York City. After six years with Pastor, May, then 21, struck out on her own and went to work for Augustin Daly's stock company, where she developed her comedic and improvisational skills. By the 1890s she was established as a star on the vaudeville circuit as well as the legitimate stage and a few films. In addition to her theatrical work, both onstage and as a manager, Irwin was also known as an accomplished homemaker and loving mother; a political activist; a real estate tycoon; a prolific composer of songs; and the writer of many articles as well as a popular cookbook"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. --- MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- Minstrel music --- Minstrel shows --- American minstrelsy --- Blackface minstrelsy --- Ethiopian operas (Minstrel music) --- Ethiopian songs (Minstrel music) --- Minstrel songs --- Minstrelsy, American --- Minstrelsy, Blackface --- Operas, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Songs, Ethiopian (Minstrel music) --- Popular music --- Revues --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Vaudeville --- Blackface entertainers --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Irwin, May, --- Campbell, Georgina May, --- Eisfeldt, Kurt, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Minstrelsy --- American minstrel music --- Minstrel show songs