Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and antebellum American popular culture /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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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
- Representitive 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.