An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 6 | BLACK, WHITES, AND THE MINSTREL STAGE 139 Listening Guide 6.1 “De Boatmen’s Dance” DAN EMMETT Listen & Refl ect ...

140 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR date: 1850 performers: Frederick Urrey, tenor, and John Van Buskirk, piano ...

CHAPTER 6 | BLACK, WHITES, AND THE MINSTREL STAGE 141 ascending fi gure that starts the chorus (“Gwine to run all night”). The s ...

142 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR A song like “De Camptown Races,” with a melody strong enough to hold per- f ...

CHAPTER 6 | BLACK, WHITES, AND THE MINSTREL STAGE 143 like Christy’s. Thus, though they seem not to have met in these years, Chr ...

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Blackface Minstrelsy and Uncle Tom’s Cabin T hrough the minstrel show’s early years, as ...

CHAPTER 6 | THE SHEET MUSIC INDUSTRY AND PARLOR SONGS 145 Christy’s response is understandable. After benefiting for more than a ...

146 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR the title and melody in as many different arrangements as possible. The eno ...

CHAPTER 6 | THE SHEET MUSIC INDUSTRY AND PARLOR SONGS 147 In the nineteenth-century parlor, music’s purpose was more social than ...

148 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR As early as the 1820s, songwriters had begun adapting the courtship song fo ...

CHAPTER 6 | THE SHEET MUSIC INDUSTRY AND PARLOR SONGS 149 date: 1851 performers: Douglas Perry, tenor, and David Starobin, guita ...

150 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR timing section text comments I hear her melodies like joys gone by, Sighing ...

CHAPTER 6 | SONGS OF SOCIAL REFORM AND WAR 151 Morris’s poem for “Woodman, Spare That Tree” is written in the voice of a man hai ...

152 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Singers, a quartet made up of brothers Judson, John, and Asa and their youn ...

CHAPTER 6 | SONGS OF SOCIAL REFORM AND WAR 153 song in support of the radical abolitionist Liberty Party, whose candidate James ...

154 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR date: 1844 performers: The New Hutchinson Family Singers (George Berglund, ...

CHAPTER 6 | SONGS OF SOCIAL REFORM AND WAR 155 Listening Guide 6.4 “Get Off the Track!”^ JESSE HUTCHINSON JR. timing section tex ...

156 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Although “Old Dan Tucker” is in verse-and-chorus form, “Get Off the Track!” ...

CHAPTER 6 | SONGS OF SOCIAL REFORM AND WAR 157 “vandals,” “Northern scum”—that undercut the two sides’ common ground. Its tone, ...

158 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR date: 1862 performers: The Gregg Smith Singers genre: Civil War song meter: ...