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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.
ISBN
025202396X (acid-free paper)
0252066960 (pbk.)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
Bibliography
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.
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