Dixie
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Product ID: PH3 GT9225
By Daniel (Dan) Emmett
published: 1859
Publisher:
Phoenix
Arranger:
Kenny
Series:
Getting it together
Line Up:
Flexible Instrumentation
Level: 2-4
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Composer
Daniel (Dan) Emmett
Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett (October 29, 1815 – June 28, 1904) was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.
Of Irish ancestry, he was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region.
Growing up with little formal education, he learned popular tunes from his musical mother, and taught himself to play the fiddle. At age 13, he became an apprentice printer and enlisted in the United States Army. He became an expert fifer and drummer at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and published his own Fifer’s and Drummer’s Guide in 1862 in cooperation with George G. Bruce. After receiving his discharge from the army on July 8, 1835, he joined a Cincinnati circus. In 1840–1842 he toured with Angervine and other circuses as a black face banjoist and singer.
In association with Billy Whitlock, Dick Pelham, and Frank Brower, he organized the Virginia Minstrels, which made their first appearance before a paying audience at the Chatham Theatre in New York City in 1843
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