Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States by Morrison, Matthew D.

Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic...
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Author: Matthew D. Morrison
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States by Morrison, Matthew D.

Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

BD$212.82

Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

BD$212.82
Author: Matthew D. Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry.

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface.

Blacksound as an idea is not the music or sounds produced by Black Americans but instead the material and fleeting remnants of their sounds and performances that have been co-opted and amalgamated into popular music. Morrison unpacks the relationship between performance, racial identity, and intellectual property to reveal how blackface minstrelsy scripts became absorbed into commercial entertainment through an unequal system of intellectual property and copyright laws. By introducing this foundational new concept in musicology, Blacksound highlights what is politically at stake--for creators and audiences alike--in revisiting the long history of American popular music.

Author: Matthew D. Morrison
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780520390577


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2024

About the Author
Matthew D. Morrison, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, is a musicologist, violinist, and Associate Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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