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Anthems and minstrel shows : the life and times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891
Thompson, Brian ChristopherMontreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]Calixa Lavallee, the composer of O Canada, was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallee and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallee s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallee travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music. Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallee emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation or nations Lavallee and O Canada really belong.".
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Anthems and minstrel shows : the life and times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891
Thompson, Brian ChristopherMontreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.From Montreal to New Orleans - the music and complex patriotism of the composer of "O Canada."
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More than just minstrel shows : the rise of Black musical theatre at the turn of the century
Riis, Thomas LaurenceNew York : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, c1992.
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