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Inside the minstrel mask : readings in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy

Title: Inside the minstrel mask : readings in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy / edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara ; foreword by Mel Watkins.
Publication: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, c1996.

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xiv, 310 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-293) and index.

Contents

Blackface and Blackness : the minstrel show in American culture / Eric Lott -- The performance of the Virginia Minstrels / Hans Nathan -- Black musicians and early Ethiopian minstrelsy: The origin of Negro minstrelsy / T. Allston Brown. Fun in Black / Charles Day. Who are our national poets? / James K. Kennard, Jr. -- Blackface minstrelsy / Alexander Saxton -- Social commentary in late-nineteenth-century white minstrelsy / Robert C. Toll -- Selection of minstrelsy memorabilia -- Negro minstrels / Charles Townsend -- The hop of fashion / Charles T. White -- Speech on woman's rights : from Dick's Ethiopian scenes, variety sketches, and stump speeches -- Early minstrel show music, 1843-1852 / Robert B. Winans -- The Georgia Minstrels : the early years / Eileen Southern -- Ethiopian skits and sketches : contents and contexts of blackface minstrelsy, 1840-1890 / William J. Mahar -- Juba and American minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter -- Transgressing the gender divide : the female impersonator in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy / Annemarie Bean -- Daddy Blue : the evolution of the dark dandy / Barbara Lewis -- Ebery time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow : cycles of minstrel transgression from cool white to Vanilla Ice / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.

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MWFW 96-16936

ISBN

0819552941 (cloth : alk. paper)
0819563005 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96016572

OCLC

34564852

Title

Inside the minstrel mask : readings in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy / edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara ; foreword by Mel Watkins.

Imprint

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, c1996.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-293) and index.

Added Author

Bean, Annemarie.

Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020.

McNamara, Brooks.

Research Call Number

MWFW 96-16936

Sc E 96-911

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