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By : Brian Roberts
Book Synopsis :
As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident in popular culture and the interplay between two specific strains of music: middle-class folk and blackface minstrelsy. The Hutchinson Family Singers, the Northeast?s most popular middle-class singing group during the mid-nineteenth century, is perhaps the best example of the first strain of music. The group?s songs expressed an American identity rooted in communal values, with lyrics focusing on abolition, women?s rights, and socialism. Blackface minstrelsy, on the other hand, emerged out of an audience-based coalition of Northern business elites, Southern slaveholders, and young, white, working-class men, for whom blackface expressed an identity rooted in individual self-expression, .
Book Detail :
Tittle : Blackface Nation: Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925
Author : Brian Roberts
Pages : 384 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022645164X
ISBN-13 : 9780226451640
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