ISBN: 1560982594

Since 1859, when blackface minstrel Dan Emmett first sang "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" before a New York City audience, the song has stirred powerful emotions on both sides of the Mason… Mehr…

Since 1859, when blackface minstrel Dan Emmett first sang "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" before a New York City audience, the song has stirred powerful emotions on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Embraced as the anthem of the Confederacy, "Dixie" still epitomizes Southern pride for some, white supremacy and racism for others. In Way Up North in Dixie, Howard Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks trace the song to a nineteenth-century black family on the Ohio frontier and tell how the words, verse for verse, speak of African American experiences in the North and a black woman's memories of her life in the slaveholding South. As the Sackses reveal, African Americans in Knox County, Ohio - the home of Dan Emmett, who claimed to have written "Dixie" - have long asserted that Emmett learned the song from a local black family of musicians, the Snowdens. Drawing on family records, public documents, and the vivid memories of elders in the community, the Sackses follow the Snowdens from Maryland slavery to Ohio freedom, reconstructing a story that is complex, discordant, and ultimately as memorable as "Dixie" itself. Farmers by occupation, the Snowdens performed banjo and fiddle tunes and sang popular songs for black and white audiences throughout rural central Ohio from the 1850s to the early twentieth century. Linking the Snowdens to Dan Emmett, the Sackses focus on a central issue of American music from minstrelsy to the present: the appropriation and stereotyping of black culture by whi arts music and photography,biographies,folk and traditional,home and garden,history and criticism,music,musical genres,performing arts,science and math,social science Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution Press<

2000, ISBN: 9781560982593

Smithsonian Press, 2000 CONDITION: NEW 2000 Smithsonian Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edge wear. B&W era photos illustrate. CONTENT: Relying on family and public records and … Mehr…

Smithsonian Press, 2000 CONDITION: NEW 2000 Smithsonian Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edge wear. B&W era photos illustrate. CONTENT: Relying on family and public records and oral history, the authors (Howard Sacks is chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Kenyon College; Judith Sacks is an editor and researcher) present a credible and carefully researched case which attributes authorship of the Confederal anthem Dixie to an African American family of musicians. Thomas and Ellen Snowden, liberated from slavery and having moved to the Ohio frontier, formed the Snowden Family Band; they and then their children performed banjo and fiddle music for black and white audiences from the 1850s to the early 1900s. Dan Emmett, a white minstrel performer, claimed to have written Dixie in 1859; but the authors argue that the Snowdens, who swapped songs with Emmett, either wrote the song or coauthored it. The Sacks's analysis of 18th-century African American musical culture documents the ways in which this music was appropriated by white performers. Questions welcome/scan on request.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. NEW BOOK/None Issued. Illus. by B&W Era Photos. 259 Pages. Arts: Music History., Smithsonian Press, 2000<

1995, ISBN: 9781560982593

Smithsonian Books, Taschenbuch, Auflage: New, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-12-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.85 kg, Afroamerikanische Studien, Afrikaner & afrikanischer Abstammung, … Mehr…

Smithsonian Books, Taschenbuch, Auflage: New, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-12-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.85 kg, Afroamerikanische Studien, Afrikaner & afrikanischer Abstammung, Ethnographie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Geschichte & Kritik, Musik, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Schlager & Chanson, Musikgenres, Ethnisch, Weltmusik, Smithsonian Books, 1995<