1. Primary Source Summary Project
MUH Music in the United States
1/22/2020
Primary Source Summary Project
Instructions remain posted on course website
Paper due on Monday, 7 Oct 5:00 pm (three days from today)
DAY 16 (4 Oct 19)

2. Friendly Alert
Instructions for the “Music Description Project” are now posted on the course web site

3. Chapter Six
“The Ethiopian Business” : Minstrelsy and Popular Song through the Civil War

4. Dixon as “Zip Coon”
Music Example: Zip Coon Music Example: The Skillet Lickers-Turkey In The Straw Music Example: Tennessee Mafia Jug Band "Turkey In The Straw"

5. Thomas “Daddy” Rice (1808-1860)
b. NYC (Lower East Side) - the Bowery
Traveling performer by 1827
Mimics black/southern speech - travels Ohio Valley & South
“Jim Crow” – observations of black workers/slaves
1830s - “Jump Jim Crow”
Music Examples - Jump Jim Crow – YouTube - Melvin Wine - Jump Jim Crow

6. Virginia Minstrels 1843 – 1st performances in the Bowery
Dan Emmett (fiddle) and three co-performers
GROUP performance in blackface & costume
Extended “concert” w/ songs, dialect, etc.
“Jimmy Crack Corn” - Jimmy Crack Corn played by Brad Sondahl – YouTube - Jim Crack Corn (1846) (explicit lyrics!)
“Old Dan Tucker” - The Skillet Lickers-Old Dan Tucker - Grandpa Jones - Old Dan Tucker – YouTube - Bruce Springsteen - Old Dan Tucker (Live 2006 Dublin)
“The Boatman Dance” (LG 6.1 – p ) - "The Boatman Dance" with banjo & fiddle – YouTube - Boatman Dance. – YouTube - De Boatman's Dance (1843, credited to Dan Emmett)

7. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
1/22/2020
“END MEN”
“Mr. Tambo” [Dick Pelham]
Fiddle (Violin) [Dan Emmett]
Banjo [Billy Whitlock]
“Mr. Bones” [Frank Brower]
DAY 16 (4 Oct 19)

8. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
1/22/2020
Minstrel Instruments
Banjo
Fiddle (violin)
Animal Bones “Mr. Bones” How to Play Bones with Dom Flemons - YouTube
Tambourine “Mr. Tambo”
Bones & Banjo and On the Lost History of the Black Banjo
DAY 16 (4 Oct 19)

9. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
1/22/2020
The Minstrel Show
“Mr. Interlocutor” and the “End Men” - M.C. and jokes - dialect (“stump speech”) [see online resources]
Original Two-Part Structure (1840s) - Northern Black characters - “Plantation” sketch
Later Three-Part Format (1850s & later) - sentimental songs, genteel tradition (“white”) - Olio – “variety show” (music, dance, stories, jokes) - “walk-around” (“Cakewalk”) Exs. (both c. 1900, i.e., recreations after the era passed) - Minstrel Cakewalk Cake Walk Dancing – YouTube - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Group and Solo Cakewalk dance (1903) - YouTube
DAY 16 (4 Oct 19)

10. White Christmas (1954) “Minstrel Number: Mandy”
VistaVision – new technology (color!)
Crosby, Kaye, et al. – song and dance
Irving Berlin – composer
“Mandy” - (from 1919 sheet music)
“…Minstrel days we miss…”
Mr. Interluctor, Mr. Bones
Tabourines, Banjo, white gloves
“Georgie Primrose” = 1890s style - larger companies, stage spectacles
(White) Nostalgia for the genre

11. Minstrelsy / Blackface in the News
MUH Music in the United States
Minstrelsy / Blackface in the News
1/22/2020
Megyn Kelly - NBC Today (23 Oct 18) - Are These Halloween Costumes Too Controversial To Wear? | Megyn Kelly TODAY (c. 5:25)
Megyn Kelly – Apology (24 Oct 18) - Megyn Kelly Apologizes For Blackface Comments: ‘I Was Wrong, And I Am Sorry’ | Megyn Kelly TODAY
CBS Evening News (25 Oct 18) - Reports: Megyn Kelly out at NBC
CBS Sunday Morning (28 Oct 18) - Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form
The Real (Fox TV) (24 Oct 18) - Our Thoughts on Megyn Kelly’s Comments on Blackface
DAY 16 (4 Oct 19)

12. Governor of Virginia (2018 - )
MUH Music in the United States
Governor of Virginia ( )
1/22/2020
VMI 1981 Yearbook
b. 13 Sept 1959; Eastern Virginia Medical School (1984)
DAY 16 (4 Oct 19)

13. …and it just gets worse…
Thomas Norment, Jr. VA Senate Majority Leader
VMI, Class of 1968 Editor of Yearbook
VMI Yearbook Photos (1968)
SNL (9 Feb 19) – State Meeting (VA)

14. Michael Ertel (b. 29 Nov. 1969, Jacksonville), Lake Howell HS
Secretary of State of Florida (8 – 24 January 2019)

15. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s PM
Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah on Justin Trudeau in Blackface