Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

Title: Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

Author: Matthew Morrison

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Year: 2024

ISBN:  9780520390591

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.