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Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture
- Title
- Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / William J. Mahar.
- Author
- Mahar, William J. (William John), 1938-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
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| Text | Request in advance | JME 99-394 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 00-1736 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- xix, 444 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 00-1736
- ISBN
- 025202396X (acid-free paper)
- 0252066960 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 97033851 /MN
- OCLC
- 37615500
- Author
- Mahar, William J. (William John), 1938-
- Title
- Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / William J. Mahar.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
- Series
- Music in American life
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 00-1736JME 99-394