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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828845303321

Titolo

Burnt cork : traditions and legacies of blackface minstrelsy / / edited by Stephen Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61376-210-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

791/.120973

Soggetti

Minstrel shows - United States - History

Blackface entertainers - United States

Minstrel shows - Social aspects - United States

United States Race relations 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

Introduction: the persistence of blackface and the minstrel tradition / Stephen Johnson -- Turning around Jim Crow / W. T. Lhamon Jr. -- Of soundscapes and blackface: from fools to Foster / Dale Cockrell -- Death and the minstrel: race, madness, and art in the last (w)rites of three early blackface performers / Stephen Johnson -- The uncanny history of minstrels and machines, 1835/1923 / Louis Chude-Sokei -- Surprised by blackface: D.W. Griffith and one exciting night / Linda Williams -- "Gentlemen, please be seated": racial masquerade and sadomasochism in 1930's animation / Nicholas Sammond -- From New Deal to no deal: blackface minstrelsy, Bamboozled, and reality television / Alice Maurice -- American ghetto parties and Ghanaian concert parties: a transnational perspective on blackface / Catherine M. Cole.