Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South |
 | Author: Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140179194
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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A controversial and radical interpretation of the most celebrated event on the Southern plantation: the corn-shucking ceremony. Relying on written accounts and oral histories of former slaves, Abrahams reconstructs this event and shows how the interaction of whites and blacks was adapted and imitated by whites in minstrel and vaudeville shows.
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Singing The Master July 3, 2010
Mr. M. Haymes (Lancaster, UK)
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This quite simply is THE essential book on the cornshucking ceremony and the songs sung by slaves (and freedmen) which are an assential root of the early blues during the first decades of the 20th. century. I will feature it as one of the major sources in a joint project we are calling "Slave To The Blues"(secular roots of blues from slavery times).
'Mississippi' Max Haymes
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