Author: Robert C. Toll
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Blackface
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.

Author: Robert C. Toll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Annemarie Bean
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819563002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.

Author: Marc A. Bauch
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656086567
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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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: Frank W. Sweet
Publisher: Backintyme
ISBN: 9780939479214
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: David R. Roediger
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859842409
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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THE WAGES OF WHITENESS provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an Afterword to this second edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself--then surveys criticism of his work. He accepts the views of some critics but challenges others.

Author: Tim Brooks
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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 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.

Author: Robert C. Toll
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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This lively, lavishly illustrated book explains the effects of the age of technology on American show business. Ranging over nearly a century, but as up-to-date as the latest box-office hits, the book traces the development of the major electronic media, then compares the treatment of popular genres in each of the different media.

Author: William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Beyond Blackface

Author: Robert C. Toll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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