Music
Traditional Music
Classical Music
Popular Music
American popular entertainers, such as the blackface minstrels of the early nineteenth century, have always utilized ballads, songs, and dances of no known origins. No conscious concept of “traditional music” emerged, however, until the late nineteenth century. The first published collection of slave ... ...Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.
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