This thesis concerns African-American fife and drum band music, a pre-blues genre that was a fixture at summer picnics in the Mississippi hill country from the late nineteenth century through most of the twentieth century. The picnics held a unique place in African-American life, a crossroads of juke joints and churches, blues and gospel, individuality and family. Using the African-American paradigm of a Saturday night / Sunday morning people, I describe the Otha Turner Family Picnic, the last picnic to feature fife and drum band music, locating it and the music in-between the secular and sacred aspects of African-American life from both a musical and a social standpoint.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc68058 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Vermilyea, Carl P. |
| Contributors | Friedson, Steven M. (Steven Michael), 1948-, Murphy, John P. (John Patrick) |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Vermilyea, Carl P., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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