Way up North in Dixie
Subtitle: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem (Music in American Life)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 27, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252071607
Subjects: Black studies; Folk music; Music; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; History & Criticism - General; Music / Folk & Traditional; African Americans; Minstrel shows; Ohio; Snowden family; Social aspects
First sentence: In a large, well-tended graveyard overlooking Mount Vernon, Ohio, rests a pioneer of American blackface minstrelsy, Daniel Decatur Emmett.