Way Up North in Dixie A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem - Music in American Life
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This book traces the lives of the Snowdens, an African American family of musicians and farmers living in rural Knox County, Ohio. Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks examine the Snowdens' musical and social exchanges with rural whites from the 1850s through the early 1920s and provide a detailed exploration of the claim that the Snowden family taught the song "Dixie" to Dan Emmett--the white musician and blackface minstrel credited with writing the song. This edition features a new introduction in which the authors discuss the public response to this controversial claim, and present new information on the Snowdens' musical and social experiences.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780252071607 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
Pub date: | 27 Oct 2003 |
DEWEY: | 780.922771 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 259 |
Weight: | 426g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |