An edition of Behind the Burnt Cork Mask (1998)

Behind the burnt cork mask

early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture

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An edition of Behind the Burnt Cork Mask (1998)

Behind the burnt cork mask

early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
444

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Subjects

Popular culture, Minstrel shows, History, Popular culture, united states, United states, history, 19th century, Minstrel music, History and criticism

Places

United States

Times

19th century
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Cover of: Behind the burnt cork mask
Behind the burnt cork mask: early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture
1999, University of Illinois Press
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Cover of: Behind the Burnt Cork Mask
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)
December 1, 1998, University of Illinois Press
Paperback in English

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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.

Published in
Urbana
Series
Music in American life

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791/.12/0973
Library of Congress
ML1711 .M34 1999, ML1711.M34 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 444 p. :
Number of pages
444

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL686916M
ISBN 10
025202396X, 0252066960
LCCN
97033851
OCLC/WorldCat
37615500
Library Thing
2319426
Goodreads
1154624

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2711529W

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Blackface minstrelsy was "the national art of its moment ... the soundtrack for the American 1848."
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