MUH Music in the United States

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MUH Music in the United States

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MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 4/11/2018 Chapter Five “A Language of Feeling” : Cultivating Musical Tastes in Antebellum America DAY 13 (29 Sep 17)

Louis Moreau Gottschalk Child prodigy in NOLA Age 13 to Paris - rejected by Conservatoire - private study Debut Salle Pleyel (age 16) - praised by Chopin (!) - “Creole” compositions “exotic” Bamboula, danse des negres, Op. 2 (cf., next slide) Gottschalk - The Banjo, Fantaisie Grotesque, Op.15 (LG - p. 127) b. 1829, New Orleans; d. 1869, Rio de Janeiro

“The Bamboula” by E.W. Kremble for The Century Magazine (1886)

Gottschalk (2) Touring piano virtuoso - US (to west coast) - Latin America Compositions draw on: - Afro-Cuban - US (folk, trad., etc.) Souvenir de Porto Rico (1857) The Union (1862) Fiesta criolla from "La Nuit des Tropiques« (1858-59) First American musician to achieve international fame

Chapter Six “The Ethiopian Business” : Minstrelsy and Popular Song through the Civil War

Minstrelsy (defined) Uniquely US popular form Widespread from 1840s to 1880s (& beyond) Origins in NYC (& elsewhere) “Variety show” format - song & dance - jokes & comic dialogue/monologues Blackface (“covers”)

George Washington Dixon (1801?-1861) First (?) important US blackface performer Working class background (NYC) Circus act – singer & reciter of poems “Ethiopian songs” 1829 – “Coal Black Rose” (NYC, Bowery) - Coal Black Rose – YouTube (solo banjo) - Coal Black Rose [364] (274) (vocal) Political satire & commentary 1834 – “Long Tail Blue” (see following slide) - Long Tail Blue.wmv – YouTube (solo banjo) - Long Tail Blue (banjo w/ voice)

Dixon as “Zip Coon” Music Example: Zip Coon Music Example: The Skillet Lickers-Turkey In The Straw Music Example: Tennessee Mafia Jug Band "Turkey In The Straw"

Thomas “Daddy” Rice (1808-1860) b. NYC (Lower East Side) - the Bowery Traveling performer by 1827 Mimics black/southern speech - travels Ohio Valley & South “Jim Crow” – observations of black workers/slaves 1830s - “Jump Jim Crow” Music Examples - Jump Jim Crow – YouTube - Melvin Wine - Jump Jim Crow

Virginia Minstrels 1843 – 1st performances in the Bowery Dan Emmett (fiddle) and three co-performers GROUP performance in blackface & costume Extended “concert” w/ songs, dialect, etc. “Jimmy Crack Corn” - Jimmy crack Corn played by Brad Sondahl - YouTube “Old Dan Tucker” - The Skillet Lickers-Old Dan Tucker - Grandpa Jones - Old Dan Tucker – YouTube (start c. 0:30) - Bruce Springsteen - Old Dan Tucker (Live 2006) “The Boatman Dance” (LG – p. 138-9) - "The Boatman Dance" with banjo & fiddle – YouTube - Boatman Dance. – YouTube - De Boatman's Dance (1843, credited to Dan Emmett)

“END MEN” “Mr. Tambo” [Dick Pelham] Fiddle (Violin) [Dan Emmett] Banjo [Billy Whitlock] “Mr. Bones” [Frank Brower]