Behind the Burnt Cork Mask

Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

Автор: William J. Mahar

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Издател: University of Illinois Press

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The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minst...

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Автор

William J. Mahar

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1998

страници

472

EAN

9780252066962

ISBN

0252066960

Enbook ID

04868797

Издател

University of Illinois Press

Теглоt

634

Размери

155 x 229 x 24

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The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.

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