| Contents |
Negro impersonations and songs in late eighteenth-century England -- The activities of the English composer Charles Dibdin -- Negro impersonations and songs in the early republic -- Indigenous negro minstrel types (1820-1840) -- Negro minstrel dances -- Dan Emmett's youth -- Emmett's career in the thirties -- The Virginia minstrels in New York and Boston -- The performance of the Virginia minstrels -- The Virginia minstrels in Great Britain -- The first negro minstrel band and its origins -- Early minstrel tunes -- Early banjo tunes and American syncopation -- Emmett's activities during the forties and fifties -- Emmet on the stage of the Bryant's minstrels and his walk-arounds -- "Dixie" -- Emmett's later life. |
| Abstract |
This book is an exhaustive study of Daniel Decatur Emmett, banjoist, fiddler, singer, composer and lyricist, comedian and playwright. Nathan's book combines musicology, biography, and history to situate Emmett's place in blackface theatre in nineteenth century America. |
| General note | "Preface to second printing": pages vi-viii. |
| General note | Includes unaccompanied melodies. |
| Bibliography note | "Bibliography of the works of D. D. Emmett": pages 290-306: "Anthology" (principally melodies with piano acc.): pages 311-491. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-494) and index. |
| LCCN | 62010769 |
