Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett 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. After working as a printer's devil and serving in the United States Army, Emmett joined a circus troupe in 1835.

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  • Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett 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. After working as a printer's devil and serving in the United States Army, Emmett joined a circus troupe in 1835. 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. Although blackface performance, in which white men painted their hands and faces black and impersonated caricatures of black men and women, was already an established performance mode at that time—Thomas D. Rice had created the character of Jim Crow nearly a decade earlier, and blackface had been widely popular ever since—Emmett's group are said to be the first to "black up" an entire band rather than one or two performers. The group's full-length blackface performance is generally considered to have performed the first true minstrel show: previous blackface acts were usually either an entr'acte for a play or one of many acts in a comic variety show.
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett fue un letrista y director de espectáculos estadounidense. Se alistó en el ejército a la edad de 17 años como flautista. En 1843 en Nueva York, ayudó a organizar a los Virginia Minstrels, una de las primeras compañías de juglaría. Se le considera como el autor de Dixie, una canción de horay que se convirtió en el himno nacional extraoficial de la Confederación. Otras de sus composiciones fueron Old Dan Tucker y Blue Tail Fly.
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett född 1815 i Mount Vernon Ohio död 1904 i Mount Vernon, amerikansk kompositör och minstrelartist, som bland annat skrivit sången Dixie's Land.
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  • 1916 rendition of "Dixie" by the Metropolitan Mixed Chorus with
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  • Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett 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. After working as a printer's devil and serving in the United States Army, Emmett joined a circus troupe in 1835.
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett fue un letrista y director de espectáculos estadounidense. Se alistó en el ejército a la edad de 17 años como flautista. En 1843 en Nueva York, ayudó a organizar a los Virginia Minstrels, una de las primeras compañías de juglaría. Se le considera como el autor de Dixie, una canción de horay que se convirtió en el himno nacional extraoficial de la Confederación. Otras de sus composiciones fueron Old Dan Tucker y Blue Tail Fly.
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett född 1815 i Mount Vernon Ohio död 1904 i Mount Vernon, amerikansk kompositör och minstrelartist, som bland annat skrivit sången Dixie's Land.
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