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Way up north in Dixie : a Black family's claim to the Confederate anthem / Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks.
LIBRA ML3556 .S2 1993
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3556 .S2 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sacks, Howard L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--Social aspects--Ohio.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music.
- Social aspects.
- Race relations.
- Ohio.
- Snowden family.
- Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904. Dixie.
- Emmett, Daniel Decatur.
- Ohio--Race relations.
- Minstrel shows.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- This book traces the lives of the Snowdens, an African American family of musicians and farmers living in rural Knox County, Ohio. Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks examine the Snowdens' musical and social exchanges with rural whites from the 1850s through the early 1920s and provide a detailed exploration of the claim that the Snowden family taught the song "Dixie" to Dan Emmett--the white musician and blackface minstrel credited with writing the song. This edition features a new introduction in which the authors discuss the public response to this controversial claim, and present new information on the Snowdens' musical and social experiences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1560982586
- OCLC:
- 27013105
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