MUH 2019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mazurka, Joan Morris, George Washington Dixon
6 Oct 2016
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European immigrant culture: first of the three traditions - chapter 1. Widespread from 1840s to 1880s (& beyond) Variety show format: song & dance, jokes and comic dialogue/monologue. George washington dixon: first important us blackface performer, working class background (nyc, circus act singer & reciter of poems, ethiopian songs , political satire and commentary, primary characters zip coon . Disney song of the south: zipideedooda. 1808-1860: nyc (lower east side, the bowery travelling performer by 1827. Mimics black/southern speech: travels ohio valley & south. Interlocutor and the end men : mc jokes, dialect. Original 2 part structure: northern black characters, plantation sketch. 3 part format: sentimental songs, genteel tradition ( white , olio variety show , cakewalk walk around . 1826-1864: pittsburgh, d. nyc (never in the south) Sold outright (no royalties) (meaning he sold his songs completely off with no ties) Hardworking craftsman : woke up every day and wrote; didn"t just wait for inspiration".
