{"product_id":"way-up-north-in-dixie-a-black-familys-claim-to-the-confederate-anthem-paperback-softback-9780252071607","title":"Way Up North in Dixie; A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252071607","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWay Up North in Dixie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHoward L. Sacks (Author), Judith Rose Sacks (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252071607\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 October 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An intriguing and textured portrait of a black family in the nineteenth-century North. . . . Arguing that those who have searched for black influences on minstrelsy have exclusively and mistakenly focused on the South, the authors seek to demonstrate the closely intertwined traditions of black and white music above the Mason-Dixon line. . . . Not only has blackface minstrelsy exerted ‘a pervasive impact on American music' . . . it has also served as both symbol and metaphoric expression of the complexities of American racial identity.\"--Drew Gilpin Faust, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"A haunting and heroic story, which the Sackses tell eloquently. . . . The fullest, most finely detailed account I know of the musical life of a nineteenth-century African American family anywhere in the United States.\"--Ken Emerson, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \"The process of cultural exchange the Sackses have delineated is one of which all historians of race in America need to be aware.\"--Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523432870168,"sku":"9780252071607","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/way-up-north-in-dixie-a-black-familys-claim-to-the-confederate-anthem-paperback-softback-9780252071607","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}