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Book Synopsis Inside the Minstrel Mask by : Annemarie Bean
Download or read book Inside the Minstrel Mask written by Annemarie Bean and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Book Synopsis Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth-century America by : Robert C. Toll
Download or read book Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth-century America written by Robert C. Toll and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0199762244 Total Pages :332 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (997 download)
Book Synopsis Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by : Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor
Download or read book Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class written by Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery.
Download or read book Love & Theft written by Eric Lott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery. This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume. It features a new foreword by renowned critic Greil Marcus that discusses the book's influence on American cultural studies as well as its relationship to Bob Dylan's 2001 album of the same name, "Love & Theft." In addition, Lott has written a new afterword that extends the study's range to the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth Century America by : Robert C. Toll
Download or read book Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth Century America written by Robert C. Toll and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop by : Yuval Taylor
Download or read book Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop written by Yuval Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years. Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form—and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black entertainment, particularly in the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle, Flavor Flav, Spike Lee, and Lil Wayne. Darkest America explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of this tradition, exploding the myth that it was a form of entertainment that whites foisted on blacks, and shining a sure-to-be controversial light on how these incendiary performances can be not only demeaning but also, paradoxically, liberating.
Download or read book Blacking Up written by Robert C. Toll and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
Book Synopsis Demons of Disorder by : Dale Cockrell
Download or read book Demons of Disorder written by Dale Cockrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy by : Robert Nowatzki
Download or read book Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy written by Robert Nowatzki and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each other's rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Nowatzki reveals how the most popular form of theatrical entertainment and the most significant reform movement of nineteenth-century Britain and America helped define cultural representations of African Americans.
Book Synopsis “Gentlemen, Be Seated!” The Rise and Fall of the Minstrel Show by : Marc A. Bauch
Download or read book “Gentlemen, Be Seated!” The Rise and Fall of the Minstrel Show written by Marc A. Bauch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: --, Saarland University (Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: A native form of entertainment that came up in around 1843 was the minstrel show. The minstrel show was a show that consisted of melodies by slaves and jokes by white actors in blackface in order to imitate the blacks. Led by Mr. Interlocutor, the master of ceremonies, three more actors in blackface sat in a semicircle. The endmen or cornermen were known as Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo, who joked together or made fun of slaves. Thus, the minstrel show was double-edged: on the one hand, racism in the United States was reinforced; on the other hand, so many white Americans have become aware of black popular culture. No wonder therefore, the rise of the minstrel show coincided with the growth of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century. But without doubt, racial discrimination was played down in the minstrel show. The minstrel show was meant as a form of entertainment, which was not intended to be taken seriously. Although the minstrel aimed to create a native and distinctly American form of entertainment, the songs they adopted were of English, Irish or Scottish origin. Furthermore, they presented parodies of European-style entertainment or parodied works by William Shakespeare. The book gives an overview of the history of the minstrel show. Marc A. Bauch is a scholar of American Literature and has specialized in American Theater, including the American Musical.
Book Synopsis Exporting Jim Crow by : Chinua Thelwell
Download or read book Exporting Jim Crow written by Chinua Thelwell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, 2011.
Book Synopsis The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media by : Tim Brooks
Download or read book The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media written by Tim Brooks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
Book Synopsis Behind the Burnt Cork Mask by : William John Mahar
Download or read book Behind the Burnt Cork Mask written by William John Mahar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.
Book Synopsis Beyond Blackface by : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Download or read book Beyond Blackface written by William Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Blackface
Book Synopsis Birth of an Industry by : Nicholas Sammond
Download or read book Birth of an Industry written by Nicholas Sammond and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural, political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examining how early animation helped to naturalize virulent racial formations, Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel, but actually pleasurable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how cartoons continue to help to illuminate the central place of race in American cultural and social life.
Download or read book Blackface Nation written by Brian Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End
Book Synopsis Female Impersonation in Nineteenth-century American Blackface Minstrelsy by : Annemarie Bean
Download or read book Female Impersonation in Nineteenth-century American Blackface Minstrelsy written by Annemarie Bean and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
