Matthew Morrison: How the Music Industry Arose from Blackface Minstrelsy

"A modern classic that elegantly and meticulously illustrates how the rise of the music industry is inseparable from structures of racism and copyright."
-Anjali Vats, author of The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans
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.
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