Blackface minstrelsy was "the national art of its moment ... the soundtrack for the American 1848."
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Behind the burnt cork mask: early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture
1999, University of Illinois Press
in English
025202396X 9780252023965
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)
December 1, 1998, University of Illinois Press
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in English
0252066960 9780252066962
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Book Details
Table of Contents
List of musical examples
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence
the playbills
Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories
Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera
Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces
Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories
Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories
Conclusion
Appendixes
Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60
Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60
Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters
Notes
Works cited
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.
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