ISBN:
9780807878026
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Series Statement:
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896/073009041
Keywords:
African Americans in mass media
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African Americans in popular culture
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Mass media -- United States -- History
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African Americans -- Race identity -- History
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African Americans ; Race identity ; History
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African Americans in mass media
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African Americans in popular culture
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Mass media ; United States ; History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen distinguished scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century. Moving beyond the familiar territory of blackface and minstrelsy, these essays present a fresh look at the history of African Americans and mass culture. With subjects ranging from representations of race in sheet music illustrations to African American interest in Haitian culture, Beyond Blackface recovers the history of forgotten or obscure cultural figures and shows how these historical actors played a role in the creation of American mass culture. The essays explore the predicament that blacks faced at a time when white supremacy crested and innovations in consumption, technology, and leisure made mass culture possible. Underscoring the importance and complexity of race in the emergence of mass culture, Beyond Blackface depicts popular culture as a crucial arena in which African Americans struggled to secure a foothold as masters of their own representation and architects of the nation's emerging consumer society. The contributors are:Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity CollegeW. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillClare Corbould, University of SydneySusan Curtis, Purdue UniversityStephanie Dunson, Williams CollegeLewis A. Erenberg, Loyola University ChicagoStephen Garton, University of SydneyJohn M. Giggie, University of AlabamaGrace Elizabeth Hale, University of VirginiaRobert Jackson, University of TulsaDavid Krasner, Emerson CollegeThomas Riis, University of Colorado at BoulderStephen Robertson, University of SydneyJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityGraham
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Working in the "Kingdom of Culture": African Americans and American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 -- First coda: Representations of Blackness in Nineteenth-Century Culture -- Black Misrepresentation in Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music Illustration -- Creating an Image in Black: The Power of Abolition Pictures -- Second coda: The Marketplace for Black Performance -- The Real Thing -- Black Creativity and Black Stereotype: Rethinking Twentieth-Century Popular Music in America -- Crossing Boundaries: Black Musicians Who Defied Musical Genres -- Our Newcomers to the City: The Great Migration and the Making of Modern Mass Culture -- Buying and Selling with God: African American Religion, Race Records, and the Emerging Culture of Mass Consumption in the South -- Third coda: The Meanings and Uses of Popular Culture -- The Secret Life of Oscar Micheaux: Race Films, Contested Histories, and Modern American Culture -- Hear Me Talking to You: The Blues and the Romance of Rebellion -- At the Feet of Dessalines: Performing Haiti's Revolution during the New Negro Renaissance -- Fourth coda: Spectacle, Celebrity, and the Black Body -- The Black Eagle of Harlem -- More than a Prizefight: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Transnational Politics of Boxing -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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