Blacksound
Blacksound

Author: Matthew D. Morrison

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0520390571

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A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. 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 arose out of slavery and 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 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--for creators and audiences alike--in revisiting the long history of American popular music.

Laguerre
Laguerre

Author: Ambrose E. Gonzales

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1434407586

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Gonzales (1857-1926) grew up speaking the Gullah language with slaves working on his family's South Carolina plantations, and he authored several books of Gullah dialect writings, including The Black Border (1922) and With Aesop Along the Black Border (1924).

Savage Dragon #244
Savage Dragon #244

Author: Erik Larsen

Publisher: Image Comics

Published: 2019-05-22

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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As his life falls apart and his world comes crashing down around him, Malcolm Dragon faces the pulse-pounding power of the fighting fowl called Powerhouse!

Savage Dragon #207
Savage Dragon #207

Author: Erik Larsen

Publisher: Image Comics

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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NEW STORY ARC. Malcolm Dragon, Battle Girl, and Rex Dexter go into Dimension-X to rescue Angel Dragon and bring Mr. Glum to justice.

My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home

Author: Emily Bingham

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2024-09-17

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1985901323

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"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home." So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions and ultimately was enshrined as the Kentucky Derby's sonic centerpiece—a popular selling point for Kentucky tourism. Emily Bingham's masterful decoding of Stephen Foster's 1853 ballad reveals that the song was always about slavery and how white Americans wanted to remember it. Acknowledging her own entanglement in this legacy, Bingham takes readers on the journey of a melody, from its inception by a white northerner, to its enormous success on the blackface circuit, in recordings by Al Jolson and Bing Crosby, and on the pages of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, to its countless screen appearances, including Shirley Temple movies, The Simpsons, and Mad Men. For almost two centuries, "My Old Kentucky Home" has never been just a song—it continues to be a resonant, changing emblem of America's original sin, whose blood-drenched shadow haunts us still. My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song investigates the tune's hidden history, lodged in the nation's cultural DNA, and ends with a startling solution for what to do with this artifact of race and slavery.