The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media
Title | The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Brooks |
Publisher | McFarland |
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.
Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth-century America
Title | Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth-century America PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Toll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1974 |
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The English Medieval Minstrel
Title | The English Medieval Minstrel PDF eBook |
Author | John Southworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780851155364 |
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The Minstrel's Tale
Title | The Minstrel's Tale PDF eBook |
Author | George Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1826 |
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The Minstrel's Bride
Title | The Minstrel's Bride PDF eBook |
Author | Catharine Mitchell |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2023-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 338231200X |
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.
The minstrel's daughter; a tale of the Scottish border, in four cantos
Title | The minstrel's daughter; a tale of the Scottish border, in four cantos PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Park (Author of The Minstrel's Daughter.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1824 |
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The Ancient Minstrel
Title | The Ancient Minstrel PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Harrison |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2016-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802190219 |
A collection of novellas from the New York Times–bestselling author—“arguably America’s foremost master of the novella . . . A force of nature on the page” (The Washington Post). The Mark Twain Award–winning author of Legends of the Fall delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition. Harrison has fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who weathers the slings and arrows of literary success and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follows soon after. In Eggs, a Montana woman reminisces about collecting eggs at her grandparents’ country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in The Case of the Howling Buddhas, retired Detective Sunderson—a recurring character from Harrison’s New York Times bestseller The Great Leader and The Big Seven—is hired to investigate a bizarre cult that achieves satori by howling along with howler monkeys at the zoo. “Still independent, fierce and feral,” The Ancient Minstrel confirms Jim Harrison as one of the most cherished and important writers in modern America (David Gates, The New York Times).