Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / William J. Mahar.
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TextSeries: Music in American lifePublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.Description: xix, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 025202396X (acidfree paper)
- 0252066960 (pbk.)
- 791/.12/0973 21
- ML1711 .M34 1999
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Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections Annex 2, PEBE 109 | Reference | ML1711 .M34 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0000000238120 |
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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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