Northern Minstrelsy
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Author |
: Northern Minstrelsy |
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Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 1845 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V000343030 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Northern minstrelsy, being select specimens of Scottish song by : Northern Minstrelsy
Author |
: Christopher J Smith |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2013-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252095047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252095049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Creolization of American Culture by : Christopher J Smith
The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners. Looking closely at the bodies and instruments Mount depicts in his paintings as well as other ephemera, Christopher J. Smith traces the performance practices of African American and Anglo-European music-and-dance traditions while recovering the sounds of that world. Further, Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white music-making to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The "Africanization" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical "creole synthesis," a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music. Reading Mount's renderings of black and white musicians against a background of historical sites and practices of cross-racial interaction, Smith offers a sophisticated interrogation and reinterpretation of minstrelsy, significantly broadening historical views of black-white musical exchange.
Author |
: Nicholas Sammond |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822375784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822375788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Birth of an Industry by : Nicholas Sammond
In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural, political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examining how early animation helped to naturalize virulent racial formations, Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel, but actually pleasurable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how cartoons continue to help to illuminate the central place of race in American cultural and social life.
Author |
: Gary D. Engle |
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Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807103705 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807103708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Grotesque Essence by : Gary D. Engle
Author |
: Dale Cockrell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 1997-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521568285 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521568289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Demons of Disorder by : Dale Cockrell
A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author |
: Robert Nowatzki |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2010-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807137451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807137456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy by : Robert Nowatzki
In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each other's rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Nowatzki reveals how the most popular form of theatrical entertainment and the most significant reform movement of nineteenth-century Britain and America helped define cultural representations of African Americans.
Author |
: Brian Roberts |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2017-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226451640 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022645164X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blackface Nation by : Brian Roberts
Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End
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ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:949776769 |
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: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oxford Bibliographies by :
Author |
: Katrina Dyonne Thompson |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2014-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252096112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252096118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ring Shout, Wheel About by : Katrina Dyonne Thompson
In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. As Thompson shows, however, blacks' "backstage" use of musical performance often served quite a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that built community and even aided rebellion. Thompson shows how these traditions evolved into nineteenth-century minstrelsy and, ultimately, raises the question of whether today's mass media performances and depictions of African Americans are so very far removed from their troublesome roots.
Author |
: Yuval Taylor |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2012-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393070989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393070980 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop by : Yuval Taylor
Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actually still alive in the work of contemporary performers--from Dave Chappelle and Flavor Flav to Spike Lee.