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Daniel Decatur Emmett

If Stephen Foster refined the so-called 19th hundred years “Ethiopian” slave-derived melody into a type of high artwork, then Daniel Decatur Emmett was the primary consultant of its low-brow, populist ethos. Emmett broke into present business by signing up for a circus in Cincinnati being a banjoist and fiddler in …

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