Darkest America : black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.
Darkest America : black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.
Darkest America : black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.
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Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton, c2012.
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N791.12097/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 364 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition -- Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface -- Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified bla...
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Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton, c2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2012.
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Summary
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 embra...
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Darkest America : black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2012.
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N791.12097/1
Record Identifier
74VvyJKqrGZg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyJKqrGZg
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ISBN
9780393070989 (hardcover)
DDC
791.120973
MMS ID
991016068089702626
