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Blacksound : making race and popular music in the United States / Matthew D. Morrison.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3479 .M69 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrison, Matthew D., 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blackface minstrel music--History.
- Blackface minstrel music.
- Popular music--African American influences.
- Popular music.
- Music and race--United States--History--19th century.
- Music and race.
- Racism in popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Racism in popular culture.
- Minstrel music--United States--History and criticism.
- Minstrel music.
- Minstrel shows--United States.
- Minstrel shows.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- African American musicians--Social conditions.
- African American musicians.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 304 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the origins of Blacksound
- Slavery and blackface in the making of blacksound
- William Henry "Master Juba" Lane and Antebellum blacksound
- Stephen Foster and the composition of Americana
- The house that blackface built : M. Witmark & Sons and the birth of Tin Pan Alley
- Intellectual (performance) property : ragtime goes pop
- Conclusion : Blacksound and the legacies of blackface.
- Notes:
- "Roth Family Foundation imprint in music."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Morrison, Matthew D., 1981- Blacksound
- ISBN:
- 9780520390577
- 0520390571
- 9780520390591
- 0520390598
- OCLC:
- 1389887716
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520390591
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