03052oam 2200685I 450 991046292500332120200520144314.01-317-09688-61-315-59515-X1-317-09687-81-4094-5511-410.4324/9781315595153 (CKB)2670000000387525(EBL)1217931(SSID)ssj0000916975(PQKBManifestationID)12461137(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916975(PQKBWorkID)10878126(PQKB)11334927(OCoLC)860715999(MiAaPQ)EBC1217931(MiAaPQ)EBC4512325(Au-PeEL)EBL4512325(CaPaEBR)ebr11488652(OCoLC)1018167754(OCoLC)963296040(EXLCZ)99267000000038752520180706e20162013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMichael Jackson and the blackface mask /Harriet J. ManningLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (205 p.)Ashgate popular and folk music seriesFirst published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.1-138-27428-3 1-4094-5510-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexHarriet 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 haAshgate popular and folk music series.Music and raceBlackface entertainersMinstrel musicHistory and criticismElectronic books.Music and race.Blackface entertainers.Minstrel musicHistory and criticism.782.42166092Manning Harriet J.939756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462925003321Michael Jackson and the blackface mask2118803UNINA