This book traces the lives of the Snowdens, an African American family of musicians and farmers living in rural Knox County, Ohio. Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks examine the Snowdens' musical and social exchanges with rural whites from the 1850s through the early 1920s and provide a detailed exploration of the claim that the Snowden family taught the song Dixie to Dan Emmett--the white musician and blackface minstrel credited with writing the song. This edition features a new introduction in which the authors discuss the public response to this controversial claim, and present new information on the Snowdens' musical and social experiences.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13
9780252071607
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96280038
Product Key Features
Book Title
Way Up North in Dixie: a Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
Author
Judith Rose Sacks, Howard L. Sacks
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Howard L. Sacks, Judith Rose Sacks
Series Title
Music in American Life
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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