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

• Autore: Manning Harriet J.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.42166092
• Soggetto topico: Music and race; Blackface entertainers; Minstrel music - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Michael Jackson and the blackface mask
• ISBN: 1-317-09688-6; 1-315-59515-X; 1-317-09687-8; 1-4094-5511-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462925003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ashgate popular and folk music series.