LEADER 04766nam 2200685 450 001 9910463485403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62674-001-1 010 $a1-61703-928-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000503002 035 $a(EBL)1181949 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000234233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181949 035 $a(OCoLC)851754661 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181949 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10834990 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL571983 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000503002 100 $a20140213h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos $econceptions of the African American West /$fMichael K. Johnson ; designed by Peter D. Halverson 210 1$aJackson, Mississippi :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 1 $aMargaret Walker Series in African American Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-40732-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Performing (in) the African American West: Minstrel Shows, Brass Bands, Hoo-Doo Cowboys, and Other Musical Tricksters; 2. "Try to Refrain from That Desire": Self-Control and Violent Passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western; 3. "This Strange White World": Race and Place in Era Bell Thompson's American Daughter and Rose Gordon's Newspaper Writing; 4. Cowboys, Cooks, and Comics: African American Characters in Westerns of the 1930's; 5. Oscar Micheaux, The Exile, and the Black Western Race Film 327 $a6. Sammy Davis Jr., Woody Strode, and the Black Westerner of the Civil Rights Era 7. Looking at the Big Picture: Percival Everett's Western Fiction; 8. The Post-Soul Cowboy on the Science Fiction Frontier; CONCLUSION THE D Is Silent; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; 330 $a"Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented in studies focused only on traditional literary material. The book engages heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local Montana newspapers rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W. C. Handy and Taylor Gordon), who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the "golden age of western television" that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a "postracial" or "postsoul" frontier; Percival Everett's fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; and movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in popular culture 606 $aAfrican Americans$zWest (U.S.)$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican Americans$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in popular culture. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life in literature. 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aJohnson$b Michael K$g(Michael Kyle),$f1963-$0894033 701 $aHalverson$b Peter D$0868789 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463485403321 996 $aHoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos$91997096 997 $aUNINA