Blackface Nation by Brian Roberts

Author:Brian Roberts [Roberts, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, United States, 19th Century, 20th Century, Music, Ethnomusicology, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies
ISBN: 9780226451787
Google: iVxvDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-04-18T22:14:47+00:00

Parlor Indians

Of the songs the Hutchinsons sang and published during the 1840s, perhaps the most resonant with the communal impulses of the time was “Glide On My Light Canoe” or, as they also titled it, “The Indian’s Lament.” Musically, the song was a typical parlor ballad. Lyrically, it offered a criticism of Manifest Destiny wrapped in a collection of stereotypes, a humanitarian appeal based on a picture of the Indian as a noble savage. The song focused on an unnamed Indian chief driven by “the whites” from his forest home. With nowhere to go, he paddles his canoe out to sea, where he lands at an offshore island. There, he sings a plaintive verse:

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