Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
book I. Minstrelsy. book II. Folk drama
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Mediaeval Stage: book I. Minstrelsy. book II. Folk drama
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Mediaeval Stage: book I. Minstrelsy. book II. Folk drama
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Mediaeval Stage: book I. Minstrelsey. book II. Folk drama
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Author: Yuval TaylorPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393070980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actually still alive in the work of contemporary performers--from Dave Chappelle and Flavor Flav to Spike Lee.
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask
Author: William John MaharPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.
The Mediaeval Stage
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Mediaeval Stage
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
For contents, see Author Catalog.
The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media
Author: Tim BrooksPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
The Mediaeval Stage: book III. Religious drama. book IV. The interlude. Appendices
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
From the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.