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  title info:
    title: On the real side
    sub title: a history of African American comedy
  name:
    name part: Watkins, Mel
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Informational works
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 664 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: Through laughing, lying, and signifying, the underground tradition of African American humor continues to transform American culture. This comprehensive history discusses blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show; folktales, race records, and all-black shows and film; Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx; Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Eddie Murphy. Here, in a second edition featuring a new afterword, is the definitive account of how black humor has sustained African Americans throughout their history. --
  table of contents: Introduction -- Prologue: Black humor...what it is -- Part One: Antecedents. Chapter One. Slavery..."don't nobody know my name but me" ; Chapter Two: Minstrelsy...the die is cast -- Part Three: Black minstrelsy to Vaudeville...black on black -- Part Two: The outside. African-American comedy on stage, screen, and radio. Chapter Four: Vaudeville and early twentieth-century Black humor...the blackening of America ; Chapter Five: Hollywood's silent years...the curse of a nation ; Chapter Six: The new negro: Harlem and Hollywood...exotics, imposters, and other misshapen identities ; Chapter Seven: Radio and early television...racial ventriloquy, black soaps and servants -- Part Three: The real side: Invisible lives and clandestine humor. Chapter Eight: Race records and Black films...sounds and visions in black and blue ; Chapter Nine: The Theatre Owners Booking Association and the Apollo Theatre...changing the joke and slipping the yoke ; Chapter Ten: Literary reflections of African-American humor...depictions of things unseen ; Chapter Eleven: Folklore and street humor..."if you grinnin', you in 'em" ; Chapter Twelve: The new comics...what you see is what you get ; Chapter Thirteen: Pryor and thereafter...on the real side.
  note: Mel Watkins.
  note: Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1994.
  note: This paperback edition of On the Real Side is a slightly emended reproduction of the edition published in New York in 1994, with a new afterword by the author. -- From title page verso
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-632) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African American wit and humor
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Humour noir américain
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: African American wit and humor
  classification: PS430 .W38 1999
  classification: PS430.W38 O5 1999
  classification: 791/.089/96073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: On the real side
    name:
      name part: Watkins, Mel, 1940-
    origin info:
      publisher: Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, ©1999
    identifier: (OCoLC)762078977
  identifier: 1556523513
  identifier: 9781556523519
  identifier: 98052336
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 981217
    record change date: 20240808153404.7
    record identifier: in00004815538
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng