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Dave Ruch	Lyr Add: Siege of Plattsburg (War of 1812) (7)	RE: Lyr Add: Siege of Plattsburg (War of 1812)	08 Nov 09
Charley, Thanks for posting this, and the other War of 1812 song earlier today. The composer here is undoubtedly Micah Hawkins (Micah Hawkins at Wikipedia), who was an uncle of the great 19th-century Long Island painter and fiddle tune collector William Sidney Mount (but that's another story). I'm no scholar of minstrel show or blackface musical traditions (though I'm interested), but it strikes me funny that a "blackface song" or a song to be sung "in the character of a Negro sailor" would have been composed in 1815. Isn't that a good 15-20 years before the beginnings of blackface song and the first seeds of the minstrel shows?

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