Sources
This project draws on a wide array of sources, ranging from archival collections to scholarly works to ethnographic observation. There are bibliographic citations embedded throughout the project in the case of specific quotes. But if you'd like to get a better sense of the kinds of sources I looked at, or want to try to look at some of them yourself, here's a bibliography:
Primary Sources
Birth of Dixie Collection. VFM 2595. The Ohio History Connection. Columbus, Ohio.
Daniel Decatur Emmett Papers, MSS 355. The Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio. Columbus, Ohio.
Daniel Decatur Emmett, OVS 0848. The Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio.
Daniel Decatur Emmett, OVS 0851. The Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio
Daniel Decatur Emmett, OVS 2846. The Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio.
Daniel Decatur Emmett Scrapbook. Mount Vernon Public Library, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Daniel Decatur Emmett Materials, Knox County Historical Society, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Durieux, Leroy. Birth of Dixie: an historical musical drama based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett. Mount Vernon, Ohio. 1969.
Galbreath, C.B. Daniel Decatur Emmett: author of Dixie. Columbus, OH: Press of Fred J. Heer, 1904.
Hartman, Jan. Old Dan; a biographical play with music and lyrics by Daniel Emmett. "First Draft." Written for the Dixie Corporation of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.
Iden, Raymond John. The origin of Negro minstrelsy and the birth of Emmett's Dixie's Land. Mount Vernon, OH: Christian Music Publishing Co., 1938.
Mary Darby Richardson Fitzhugh Papers (Mss. A F557 3), The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY.
Porter, Lorle. The Great Dan Emmett: Burnt-Cork Artist Extraordinaire. Nashport, OH: New Concord Press, 2006 Published in cooperation with the Knox County Historical Society, 2008
Wintermute, H. Ogden. Daniel Decatur Emmett. Mount Vernon, OH, 1955.
Secondary Sources
Bean, Annemarie; Hatch, James; and Brooks McNamara, ed. Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Cockrell, Dale. Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
Cox, Karen. Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Cox, Karen. Johnson, Stephen, ed., Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy. Amherst, MA; University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Lhamon, W.T. Jr. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Nathansan, Hans. Dan Emmett and the Rise of Negro Minstrelsy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.
Sacks, Howard L. and Judith Rose. Way up north in Dixie; a Black family's claim to the Confederate Anthem. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Thurber, Cheryl.