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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814307503321

Titolo

Beyond blackface : African Americans and the creation of American popular culture, 1890-1930 / / edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-9313-000-3

979-88-908400-0-4

1-4696-0296-2

0-8078-7802-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Altri autori (Persone)

BrundageW. Fitzhugh <1959-> (William Fitzhugh)

Disciplina

305.896/073009041

305.896073009041

Soggetti

African Americans in mass media

African Americans in popular culture

Mass media - United States - History

African Americans - Race identity - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Black misrepresentation in nineteenth-century sheet music illustration / Stephanie Dunson -- Creating an image in Black : the power of abolition pictures / John Stauffer -- The real thing / David Krasner -- Black creativity and Black stereotype : rethinking twentieth-century popular music in America / Susan Curtis -- Crossing boundaries : Black musicians who defied musical genres / Thomas Riis -- Our newcomers to the city : the great migration and the making of modern mass culture / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Buying and selling with God : African American religion, race records, and the emerging culture of mass consumption in the South / John M. Giggie -- The secret life of Oscar Micheaux : race films, contested histories, and modern American culture / Robert Jackson -- Hear me talking to you : the blues and the romance of rebellion / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- At the feet of Dessalines : performing Hait's revolution during the new Negro renaissance / Clare Corbould -- The Black eagle of Harlem / Shane White ... [et al.] -- More than a prizefight : Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the transnational



politics of boxing / Lewis A. Erenberg.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen distinguished scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century.  Moving beyond the familiar territory of blackface and minstrelsy, these essays present a fresh look at the history of African Americans and mass culture. With subjects ranging from representations of race in sheet music illus