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African American musicians
African American performers
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banjo music
Ben Snowden
black musicians
blackface
blackface minstrels
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creation of the song Dixie
Dan Emmett
Ellen Snowden
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history of Knox Country Ohio
influence of African American music
influence of black music
Knox County Ohio
Lew Snowden
minstrel artists
minstrel shows
minstrel shows in the nineteenth century
minstrel singers
minstrelsy
nineteenth century African American musicians
nineteenth century black musicians
origins of Dixie
origins of the song Dixie
Snowden family
Snowden Family Band
story behind the song Dixie
Thomas Snowden
who wrote Dixie?
who wrote the song Dixie?
Product details
- ISBN 9780252071607
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2003
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Howard L. Sacks is a professor emeritus of sociology at Kenyon College. Judith Rose Sacks was an affiliated scholar in American studies at Kenyon College.
