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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462925003321

Autore

Manning Harriet J.

Titolo

Michael Jackson and the blackface mask / / Harriet J. Manning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-09688-6

1-315-59515-X

1-317-09687-8

1-4094-5511-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Disciplina

782.42166092

Soggetti

Music and race

Blackface entertainers

Minstrel music - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; General Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 Conflict and Contradiction: Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy; 2 'Black or White': From Jim Crow to Michael Jackson; 3 The Continuum of Blackface Minstrelsy; 4 Ghosts: Racial Fantasy and the Lost Black Self; 5 Turnaround: Love and Theft; 6 Just Using It: Eminem, the Mask and a Fight for Authenticity; 7 The Burden of Ambiguity; 8 This Is It; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Harriet Manning argues that the nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy's legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson, in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded. The author further contends that minstrelsy's assumptions and uses have been fundamental to the troubles and controversies with which Jackson was beset. Blackface minstrelsy continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. The body of contradiction behind the blackface mask provides an effective approach to try to understand Jackson, a cultural figure about whom more questions than answers ha