Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) 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 o
By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek DramaThe cover of Seeing Theater, thoughtfully designed by my late brother-in-law and artist David Palacios, offers a succinct visual encapsulation of the book and an interesting twist on the only surviving image in c