Staging the Amateur Minstrel Show
Author | : Kent Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : African American minstrels |
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Author | : Kent Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : African American minstrels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Seymour Selden Tibbals |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Amateur plays |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Burge Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1558499342 |
Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy--stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans--remained arguably the most popular entertainment in North America. A renewed scholarly interest in this contentious form of entertainment has produced studies treating a range of issues: its contradictory depictions of class, race, and gender; its role in the development of racial stereotyping; and its legacy in humor, dance, and music, and in live performance, film, and television. The style and substance of minstrelsy persist in popular music, tap and hip-hop dance, the language of the standup comic, and everyday rituals of contemporary culture. The blackface makeup all but disappeared for a time, though its influence never diminished--and recently, even the makeup has been making a comeback. This collection of original essays brings together a group of prominent scholars of blackface performance to reflect on this complex and troublesome tradition. Essays consider the early relationship of the blackface performer with American politics and the antislavery movement; the relationship of minstrels to the commonplace compromises of the touring "show" business and to the mechanization of the industrial revolution; the exploration and exploitation of blackface in the mass media, by D. W. Griffith and Spike Lee, in early sound animation, and in reality television; and the recent reappropriation of the form at home and abroad. In addition to the editor, contributors include Dale Cockrell, Catherine Cole, Louis Chude-Sokei, W. T. Lhamon, Alice Maurice, Nicholas Sammond, and Linda Williams.
Author | : Carl Frederick Wittke |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frank Dumont |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Amateur plays |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marc Bauch |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3656086362 |
Document from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: --, Saarland University (Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: A native form of entertainment that came up in around 1843 was the minstrel show. The minstrel show was a show that consisted of melodies by slaves and jokes by white actors in blackface in order to imitate the blacks. Led by Mr. Interlocutor, the master of ceremonies, three more actors in blackface sat in a semicircle. The endmen or cornermen were known as Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo, who joked together or made fun of slaves. Thus, the minstrel show was double-edged: on the one hand, racism in the United States was reinforced; on the other hand, so many white Americans have become aware of black popular culture. No wonder therefore, the rise of the minstrel show coincided with the growth of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century. But without doubt, racial discrimination was played down in the minstrel show. The minstrel show was meant as a form of entertainment, which was not intended to be taken seriously. Although the minstrel aimed to create a native and distinctly American form of entertainment, the songs they adopted were of English, Irish or Scottish origin. Furthermore, they presented parodies of European-style entertainment or parodied works by William Shakespeare. The book gives an overview of the history of the minstrel show. Marc A. Bauch is a scholar of American Literature and has specialized in American Theater, including the American Musical.
Author | : Jeff T. Branen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Minstrel shows |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tim Brooks |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476676763 |
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.
Author | : Frank Costellow Davidson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Blackface minstrel shows |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : 清华大学出版社有限公司 |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Bibliographical literature |
ISBN | : |