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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States


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"No book from this past year better explains American popular music than professor Matthew Morrison's Blacksound."—A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2024 A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface. Blacksound as an idea is not the music or sounds produced by Black Americans but instead the material and fleeting remnants of their sounds and performances that have been co-opted and amalgamated into popular music. Morrison unpacks the relationship between performance, racial identity, and intellectual property to reveal how blackface minstrelsy scripts became absorbed into commercial entertainment through an unequal system of intellectual property and copyright laws. By introducing this foundational new concept in musicology, Blacksound highlights what is politically at stake—for creators and audiences alike—in revisiting the long history of American popular music.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of Illustrations  Author’s Note  Acknowledgments  Introduction: The Origins of Blacksound  PART I. RACIAL IDENTITY AND POPULAR MUSIC IN EARLY BLACKFACE  1. Slavery and Blackface in the Making of Blacksound  2. William Henry “Master Juba” Lane and Antebellum Blacksound  3. Stephen Foster and the Composition of Americana  PART II. THE BIRTH OF THE POPULAR MUSIC INDUSTRY 4. The House That Blackface Built: M. Witmark & Sons and the Birth of Tin Pan Alley  5. Intellectual (Performance) Property: Ragtime Goes Pop  Conclusion: Blacksound and the Legacies of Blackface  Notes  Bibliography  Index   

About the Author :
Matthew D. Morrison, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, is a musicologist, violinist, and Associate Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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"Morrison argues that today’s popular music industry was built on the exploitation of slave song and blackface minstrelsy, resulting in an amalgamation of Black and other racialized (including white) musics that he theorizes as 'Blacksound.' Over five chapters, Morrison uses Blacksound to analyze sonic identity, performance, and property within a cultural and legal system under white control. . . . Essential reading." “Morrison creates, proposes, and names the concept of ‘Blacksound’ to explain the complicated, multiracial origin of the music of blackface minstrelsy and to show the lingering effects Blacksound has had upon the popular music of the US and, by extension, the world.”  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520390591
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 484 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520390598
  • Publisher Date: 05 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
  • Width: 152 mm


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