Author: Jim CROWPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Mrs.&Mrs. Jim Crow's Collection of Songs to Drive Away the Blue Devils
An African American Miscellany Selections from a Quarter Century of Collecting, 1970-1995
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076919
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U)
Author: George McKayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474287840
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
We can do little to escape the experience of the United States of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From black face minstrelsy, rap music and fiction to McDonald's, rock festivals and Star Trek, the cultural conception of America is critically unpacked by contributors from Europe, Israel and the USA. McKay rounds off the picture by offering a comprehensive introduction that explains theoretical approaches to Americanization from the thesis of Yankee cultural imperialism to America as site of liberation or fantasy.
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1988 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361214
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Author: Jenna M. GibbsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America. Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century, examining controversies over the place of black people in the Anglo-American moral imagination. Taking a transatlantic and nearly century-long view, Performing the Temple of Liberty draws on a wide range of performed texts as well as ephemera—broadsides, ballads, and cartoons—and traces changes in white racial attitudes. Gibbs asks how popular entertainment incorporated and helped define concepts of liberty, natural rights, the nature of blackness, and the evils of slavery while also generating widespread acceptance, in America and in Great Britain, of blackface performance as a form of racial ridicule. Readers follow the migration of theatrical texts, images, and performers between London and Philadelphia. The story is not flattering to either the United States or Great Britain. Gibbs's account demonstrates how British portrayals of Africans ran to the sympathetic and to a definition of liberty that produced slave manumission in 1833 yet reflected an increasingly racialized sense of cultural superiority. On the American stage, the treatment of blacks devolved into a denigrating, patronizing view embedded both in blackface burlesque and in the idea of "Liberty," the figure of the white goddess. Performing the Temple of Liberty will appeal to readers across disciplinary lines of history, literature, theater history, and culture studies. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will also take an interest in this provocative work.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Annual Report of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"Americana, 1532-1700; preliminary short title list": 1934/35, p. 24-39.
Author: British Library
Author: