TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Christopher J. ED - Project Muse. TI - The creolization of American culture: William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy T2 - Music in American life SN - 9780252095047 AV - ML1711 .S63 2013 U1 - 781.640973/09034 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Mount, William Sidney, KW - Blackface entertainers KW - United States KW - Minstrel shows KW - History KW - Minstrel music KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252095047/ ER -