MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Washington Dixon, Early Music, Cakewalk
4 Oct 2016
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: emerged in urban areas such as nyc and among working class communities of mixed ethnic and cultural heritage: iden. Cakewalk , an africanized version of the european quadrille (parody of a parody: rice"s nyc performance (1832) lead to explosion of blackface performance performed by and for mixed race performers and audiences, use of hybrid dialect: Allowed for satire, ridicule of elite class and culture: jim crow characterized a trickster . Likely appealing to poor, racially mixed audiences: jim cow became a highly derogatory term, 1870"s to 1950"s referenced to segregationist laws, rice is perceived as quintessentially american, his second big hit was zip coon. Interlocutor, tambo and bones, etc: minstrel troupes, begin in 1840s with the success of the virginia minstrels, others: christy minstrels, the african melodists, the congo minstrels, the. Congo melodists; the ethiopian melodists, harmonists, serenaders or.
