MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: My Old Kentucky Home, Stephen Foster, George Washington Dixon

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Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of african american music, dance, dress, and dialect. The first white performer to establish a wide reputation as a blackface entertainer. Made his new york debut in 1828. His act featured two of the earliest ethiopian songs, long tail blue and coal black. White actor born into a poor family in new york"s seventh ward. Demonstrated the potential popularity and profitability of minstrelsy with the song jim. Daddy rice"s jim crow character: spoke and sand in a dialect that was based partly on pre-existing white rural characters. Shortly after rice"s jim crow became famous, george washington dixon performed as zip coon. Jim crow was supposed to be a southern slave, dressed in rags; zip (derived from the name scipio) was supposed to be a northern, urban, dandified black.

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