Minstrel music
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Aileen Shafer, Collector, Material regarding African-Americans
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3756
Scope and Contents
Nineteenth century records regarding African-Americans, including deed of emancipation (1829), two brief autograph letters by abolitionists Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips (1850, 1882), eight copies of "The Anti-Slavery Record", a significant abolitionist publication (1835), and twenty popular song broadsides featuring minstrel song themes (ca. 1830s-1860s).
Dates:
1829-1884
Daniel Decatur Emmett, Composer, Facsimile of Manuscript of "Dixie's Land"
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4257
Scope and Contents
Actual-size facsimile of Daniel Decatur Emmett's original manuscript of the music and lyrics for the song "Dixie's Land". Emmett composed the song in 1859. The facsimile was created by George Bird Evans, the owner of the original manuscript, circa 1960-1961. The facsimile also includes historical notes by Evans.
Dates:
1859; 1960-1961