Author: George BurgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Greek Anthology
Author: Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Author: Yuval TaylorPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308390X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years. Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form—and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black entertainment, particularly in the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle, Flavor Flav, Spike Lee, and Lil Wayne. Darkest America explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of this tradition, exploding the myth that it was a form of entertainment that whites foisted on blacks, and shining a sure-to-be controversial light on how these incendiary performances can be not only demeaning but also, paradoxically, liberating.
The Minstrel's Melody
Author: Eleanora E. TatePublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497646618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
A twelve-year-old aspiring performer follows her dream in a novel that culminates at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair Orphelia Bruce lives in rural Missouri, the corner where Illinois, Iowa, and her home state come together. She can sing and play the piano better than anyone in Lewis County. So when Orphelia’s mother forbids her from taking part in a traveling minstrel show looking for new talent and starring her idol, Madame Meritta, she runs away to join their troupe. But life on the road isn’t what she expected. She misses her family, even her annoying older sister, Pearl—Momma’s favorite. And it’s not nearly as glamorous as Orphelia imagined. The group performs in a different town every night, which means long hours of travel. Despite her fame, Madame Meritta still has to work hard to keep her band fed and clothed. But performing at the St. Louis World’s Fair could be Orphelia’s big chance. When a long-buried secret changes everything she thought she knew about her family, will she still get to live her dream? This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Blackwood's Magazine
Author: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Author: Road to Santiago
Author: Walter StarkiePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520332547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Comprising Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ...
Author: Walter ScottThe Minstrel's Bride
Author: Catharine MitchellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338231200X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830
Author: E. SimpsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230593984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.
Sing A New Song: The Minstrel's Handbook
Author: Clarence BlairPublisher: Clarence Blair
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This is a manual serious students and practitioners of black gospel music. It will help improve the gospel music workshop experience, or that also of the local choir clinics. This is a resource that can be used extensively as a refresher after music collaborative. The problems and concerns of loose leaf handouts have been dealt with in a single bound reference manual.