This study examines the artworks; letters; sketchbooks; music collection; and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. Christopher J. Smith uses Mounts depictions of black and white vernacular fiddlers; banjo players; and dancers to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts; showing how rivers; waterfronts; and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The "Africanization" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsys musical "creole synthesis;" a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies; repertoires; tunes; and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music. Winner of the Irving Lowens award for "Best Book" from the Society for American Music.
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