George Christy's Essence of Old Kentucky
Author | : George N. Christy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Minstrel shows |
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Author | : George N. Christy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Minstrel shows |
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Author | : Edwin Pearce Christy |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : George Harrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 18?? |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Eric Lott |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199361630 |
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery. This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume. It features a new foreword by renowned critic Greil Marcus that discusses the book's influence on American cultural studies as well as its relationship to Bob Dylan's 2001 album of the same name, "Love & Theft." In addition, Lott has written a new afterword that extends the study's range to the twenty-first century.
Author | : John Denison Vose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : George Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Cribbage |
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Author | : George Arnold |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Author | : Richard Stott |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801897955 |
“Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control. Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.
Author | : Norman Cazden |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1983-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0791498646 |
Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.
Author | : the late Russell Sanjek |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1988-07-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0195364627 |
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.