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Camptown Races

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In The Americana Song Reader, William Emmett Studwell writes that the song was introduced by the Christy Minstrels, and noting that “[Foster’s] nonsense lyrics are much of the charm of this bouncy and enduring bit of Americana … [The song] was a big hit with minstrel troupes throughout the country.” Foster’s music was used for derivatives that include “Sacramento”, “A In America’s Musical Life, Richard Crawford observes that the song resembles Dan Emmett’s “Old Dan Tucker”, and suggests Foster used Emmett’s piece as a model. Both songs feature contrast between a high instrumental register with a low vocal one, comic exaggeration, hyperbole, verse and refrain, call and response, and syncopation. However, Foster’s melody is “jaunty and tuneful” while Emmett’s is “driven and aggressive”. Crawford points out that the differences in the two songs represent not only two different musical styles, but a shift in minstrelsy from the rough spirit and “muscular, unlyrical music” of the 1840s to a more genteel spirit and lyricism with an expanding repertoire that included sad songs, sentimental and love songs, and parodies of opera. Crawford explains that by mid-century, the “noisy, impromptu entertainments” characteristic of Dan Emmett and the Virginia Minstrels were passe and the minstrel stage was evolving into a “restrained and balanced kind of spectacle”. He writes, “In that setting, a comic song like ‘De Camptown Races’, with a tune strong enough to hold performers to the prescribed notes, proved a means of channeling unruliness into a more controlled mode of expression.”

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