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Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / William J. Mahar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Music in American lifePublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.Description: xix, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 025202396X (acidfree paper)
  • 0252066960 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791/.12/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • ML1711 .M34 1999
Contents:
List of musical examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence -- the playbills -- Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories -- Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera -- Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces -- Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories -- Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60 -- Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60 -- Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
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Book Book Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections Annex 2, PEBE 109 Reference ML1711 .M34 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0000000238120

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.

List of musical examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence -- the playbills -- Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories -- Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera -- Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces -- Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories -- Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60 -- Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60 -- Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Judy B. Alter Gift 2017

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