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10 - The Blackface Songster in Britain

from Part 3 - Nation, Place and Purpose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2017

Paul Watt
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Derek B. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Patrick Spedding
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
A Cultural History of the Songster
, pp. 184 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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References

Songsters Referred To in the Text

Christy Minstrels Song Books. London: Boosey, Musical Cabinet series, various dates late nineteenth century.Google Scholar
Christy’s Nigga Songster, As Sung by Christy’s, Pierce’s, White’s and Dumbleton’s Minstrels. New York: T.W. Strong, c. 1850.Google Scholar
Complete Repertoire Of The Songs, Ballads And Plantation Melodies Sung By The Moore & Burgess Minstrels. London: Hopwood & Crew, n.d. [late nineteenth century].Google Scholar
Francis & Day’s Album of G.H. Elliott’s Popular Songs. [Together with a critical appreciation and biographical sketch by C. Wilmot.] London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1910.Google Scholar
Francis & Day’s Seventh Banjo Comic Annual. London: Francis, Day & Hunter, c. 1896.Google Scholar
Hunter, H. and Williams, W. (eds.). Mohawk Minstrels’ Magazine. London: Francis, Day & Hunter, late nineteenth-century series.Google Scholar
Jim Crow’s Vagaries, Or, Black Flights of Fancy. London: Orlando Hodgson, c. 1840.Google Scholar
Mackney’s Songs of Negro Life, as sung by him at St James’s Hall, The Crystal Palace, and the Principal London Concerts. London: George Davidson’s Music Publishing Company, 1860.Google Scholar
Maxfield, W.H. (ed.). Bayley and Ferguson’s Fifty Minstrel Songs (Old and New). London and Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson, n.d.Google Scholar
Mr and Mrs Jim Crow’s Collection of Songs. London: George Smeeton, c. 1840.Google Scholar
One Hundred Negro and American Songs. London: Charles Sheard, Musical Bouquet series, 1857.Google Scholar
The Original Christy’s Minstrels Complete Repertoire of Plantation Melodies. London: W.B. Ford, 1857.Google Scholar
Reyloff, E. (ed.). Seventeen Songs by E.W. Mackney. London: George Davidson’s The Music Publishing Company, Musical Library series, 1861–62.Google Scholar
Rhyl Guide and Song Book. Rhyl, North Wales: Rhyl Publicity Association, 1904.Google Scholar
Sharp, John W. (ed.). Vauxhall Comic Song-Book. London: Thomas Allman, 1847.Google Scholar
Uncle Coffee’s Ethiopian Songster, A Selection of Common Minstrel Songs and Tunes from the Middle 1800s. Available at www.zipcon.net/~silas/Drill/songster.htm.Google Scholar

References

Cockrell, Dale. Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Hood, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. London: Frederick Warne, 1890.Google Scholar
Keane, A.H. Man, Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920.Google Scholar
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Negus, Keith and Pickering, Michael. Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value. London: Sage, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pickering, Michael. Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.Google Scholar
Pickering, Michael. ‘“Fun without vulgarity”? Commodity racism and the promotion of blackface fantasies’. In Hund, Wulf D., Pickering, Michael and Ramamurthy, Anandi (eds.), Colonial Advertising & Commodity Racism (Racism Analysis: yearbook 4), 119–34. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2013.Google Scholar
Rainbow, Bernarr. The Land Without Music. London: Novello, 1967.Google Scholar
Scott, Derek. The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour. Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Scott, Derek. Sounds of the Metropolis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
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