From the Barn to the Bowery and Back Again

Musical Routes in Rural Ohio,1800n1929 [Phillips Barry Lecture, October 2000]

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ID2979433
AuthorsHoward L Sacks (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume116
Issue461
Pages314-338
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaf.2003.0048
OpenAlexW2068910481
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Drawing on a community study of musicians from Mount Vernon, Ohio, I examine the interpenetration of regional and national musical cultures by examining the repertoires and life histories of Dan Emmett, founder of the first professional blackface minstrel troupe in 1843; the Snowden Family Band, African American stringband musicians who performed in the 1850s through 1920; and John Baltzell, a champion fiddler of the 1920s. Instead of viewing national trends as destructive of regionality, I propose that artists are (and were) selective, active participants in the process of forming repertoire and style. Community-based musicians respond to a variety of national musical influences while maintaining a continuing attachment to locality

Archaeology · Art · Barn · Champion · Literature · Musical · Repertoire · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Visual arts · History · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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