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| 1777 births | |
| hawkins, micah | |
| american composers | |
| blackface minstrel songwriters | |
| 1825 deaths | |
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He was born in Head Of The Harbor, New York and moved to New York City in 1798, where he worked in several jobs, including carriage-maker, before opening a grocery and inn. He played Flute , Piano , and Violin . His Blackface song "Backside Albany", ridiculing the British during the War Of 1812 was to be sung "in the character of a Negro sailor". ridiculing the British efforts. It was first performed in Albany, New York , February 15 , 1815 , as part of a play, ''The Battle of Plattsburgh.'' His Operetta ''The Saw-Mill, or A Yankee Trick'', the first opera by an American composer on an American theme, had six performances at New York's Chatham Garden Theatre in 1824–25. REFERENCES
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