Description
- Notes:
- sung by the Virginia Minstrels ; composed for the piano forte.
- For voice and piano.
- Caption title.
- Attributed to Daniel Decatur Emmett, first performed in 1843, in: Series of old American songs / Brown University Library, no. 32.
- "1839-1843, Dubois, William, 285 Broadway [New York]"--Early American sheet music / Dichter & Shapiro, p. 188.
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Emmett, Dan. D. (Daniel Decatur),
"Boatman's dance:
a popular song
"
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s).
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:25091/
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Collection:
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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
...This collection is a grouping of over 1,400 items dating from the 1830s to the 1920s. The contents of the collection depict representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical …