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The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media

Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663730X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media written by Tim Brooks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-22 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.

A History of the Minstrel Show

Author : Frank W. Sweet
Publisher : Backintyme
ISBN 13 : 9780939479214
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Minstrel Show written by Frank W. Sweet and published by Backintyme. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anthems and Minstrel Shows

Author : Brian Christopher Thompson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773584161
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Anthems and Minstrel Shows written by Brian Christopher Thompson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée 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 Lavallée’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, Lavallée 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, Lavallée 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 – Lavallée and “O Canada” really belong.

The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media

Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476676763
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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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.

Encyclopedia of Identity

Author : Ronald L. Jackson II
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452261733
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Identity written by Ronald L. Jackson II and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a free 30-day online trial to this title, visit www.sagepub.com/freetrial The two volumes of this encyclopedia seek to explore myriad ways in which we define ourselves in our daily lives. Comprising 300 entries, the Encyclopedia of Identity offers readers an opportunity to understand identity as a socially constructed phenomenon - a dynamic process both public and private, shaped by past experiences and present circumstances, and evolving over time. Offering a broad, comprehensive overview of the definitions, politics, manifestations, concepts, and ideas related to identity, the entries include short biographies of major thinkers and leaders, as well as discussions of events, personalities, and concepts. The Encyclopedia of Identity is designed for readers to grasp the nature and breadth of identity as a psychological, social, anthropological, and popular idea. Key ThemesArtClassDeveloping IdentitiesGender, Sex, and SexualityIdentities in ConflictLanguage and DiscourseLiving EthicallyMedia and Popular CultureNationality Protecting IdentityRace, Culture, and EthnicityRelating Across CulturesReligionRepresentations of IdentityTheories of Identity

"Gentlemen, be Seated!"

Author : Marc Bauch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656086362
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book "Gentlemen, be Seated!" written by Marc Bauch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 57 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.

Blacking Up

Author : Robert C. Toll
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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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 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.

Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show

Author : Richard Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show written by Richard Wiley and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, written by a PEN/Faulkner Award winner.

Minstrel Shows and Songs

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Minstrel Shows and Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inside the Minstrel Mask

Author : Annemarie Bean
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819563002
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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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.

Minstrel-show Songs

Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minstrel-show Songs written by Stephen Foster and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980-03-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making of a Minstrel Show

Author : Seymour Selden Tibbals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Making of a Minstrel Show written by Seymour Selden Tibbals and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Men in Blackface

Author : Seymour Stark
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453582886
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Men in Blackface written by Seymour Stark and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents The Minstrel Show Will Never Die Jim Crow and Tom Thumb Irishness of it All Irving Berlin Titillates Gershwins Racial Profiling Jews in Blackface Jolson the Shlemiel Strutting to Redemption Endnotes -------------------------------- How New York City, the Birthplace of Blackface, Defined Humor and Race for 100 Years (MIB: 12-17) Jim Crow, a blackface stage character, lends his name to the pernicious practice of racial segregation. Native New Yorker Tom Rice performed "Jim Crow" at the Bowery Theatre in 1832. (MIB: 22-24) Edwin P. Christy established the first permanent minstrel hall at 472 Broadway in New York City in 1847. Christy created the stylized format which endured for 10 decades. Why Irish Americans Wore Blackface (MIB: 18-19) Dan Emmets "Dixie", written as a minstrel tune, became the Confederate anthem. In an earlier minstrel song, Emmett romanticized slavery: "Ill dance all night an work all day." (MIB: 46-48) Ned Harrigan, the grandfather of the Broadway musical, pitted on stage the Irish Mulligan Guard in 1879 against the black (white actors in blackface) Skidmore Guard--"Ten platoons of dandy coons." The Blackface Burden of Jewishness (MIB: 73-78) Irving Berlin, son of a cantor, penned his first "coon song" in 1909, and added eight more to his "coon song" cycle. Berlin staged blackface minstrel shows for the Army in both World War I and World War II. His 1942 film, "Holiday Inn", introduced "White Christmas" and Bing Crosby in blackface. (MIB: 101-138) Al Jolson in blackface made the first talking motion picture in 1927. In each of his eight Hollywood films over two decades, Jolson weaved the theme of Jewishness into the blackface minstrel show. He is the worldwide icon of blackface.

Demons of Disorder

Author : Dale Cockrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521568289
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (682 download)

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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.

A Rustic Minstrel Show

Author : Willis Newton Bugbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Rustic Minstrel Show written by Willis Newton Bugbee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love & Theft

Author : Eric Lott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195320557
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Love & Theft written by Eric Lott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

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)

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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.