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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Howard L. Sacks; Judith Rose Sacks


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This book traces the lives of the Snowdens, an African American family of musicians and farmers living in rural Knox County, Ohio. Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks examine the Snowdens' musical and social exchanges with rural whites from the 1850s through the early 1920s and provide a detailed exploration of the claim that the Snowden family taught the song "Dixie" to Dan Emmett--the white musician and blackface minstrel credited with writing the song. This edition features a new introduction in which the authors discuss the public response to this controversial claim, and present new information on the Snowdens' musical and social experiences.

First line

In a large, well-tended graveyard overlooking Mount Vernon, Ohio, rests a pioneer of American blackface minstrelsy, Daniel Decatur Emmett.

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  • Title Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
  • Author Howard L. Sacks; Judith Rose Sacks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date October 27, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780252071607 / 0252071603
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.04 x 0.85 in (23.22 x 15.34 x 2.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Ohio
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Ohio - Music - Social, Snowden family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003007169
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Howard L. Sacks is a professor emeritus of sociology at Kenyon College. Judith Rose Sacks was an affiliated scholar in American studies at Kenyon College.
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