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Author : Robert C. Toll
Release : 1974
Genre : Blackface
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Book Synopsis Blacking Up by : Robert C. Toll
Download or read book Blacking Up written by Robert C. Toll. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
Author : Robert C. Toll
Release : 1974
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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. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annemarie Bean
Release : 1996-11-29
Genre : History
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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. This book was released on 1996-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Author : Marc A. Bauch
Release : 2011-12-20
Genre : Literary Collections
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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. This book was released on 2011-12-20. 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.
Author : Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor
Release : 1993-10-28
Genre : Minstrel shows
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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. This book was released on 1993-10-28. 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.
