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Primary Source Summary Project

Explore Louis Moreau Gottschalk's rise from NOLA prodigy to international fame and the impact of minstrelsy on popular music through the Civil War.

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Primary Source Summary Project

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  1. Primary Source Summary Project Instructions remain posted on course website Paper due on Monday, 7 Oct 19 @ 5:00 pm(one week from today) Preliminary (completed) drafts accepted for advisory reading up to 5:00 pm today

  2. Friendly Alert Instructions for the“Music Description Project”are now postedon the course web site

  3. Chapter Five “A Language of Feeling” : Cultivating Musical Tastes in Antebellum America

  4. 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 5.2 - p. 110) b. 1829, New Orleans;d. 1869, Rio de Janeiro

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

  6. 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

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

  8. 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”)

  9. 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 (1829) (vocal) • Political satire & commentary • 1834 – “Long Tail Blue” (see following slide)- Long Tail Blue (solo banjo)- Long Tail Blue (banjo w/ voice)

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

  11. 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

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