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The blackface minstrel show in mass media : 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television / Tim Brooks

Brooks, Tim [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020] [© 2020]

vii, 282 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 26 cm

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 265-267

978-1-4766-7676-0 (print paperback)

978-1-4766-3730-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019042317

OCoLC: 1196340783     

AP 15965      Ähnliche Literatur

P96.M5552

305.8096/073

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

LOC-SH: Minstrel shows in mass media ; Blackface in mass media ; African Americans in mass media ; Mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century

The origins of Blackface Minstrelsy -- The Minstrel Show on records -- The Minstrel Show on radio -- The Minstrel Show in Motion Pictures -- The Minstrel Show on Television -- Epilogue and Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Prominent Minstrel Troupes Active after 1890 -- Appendix 2. Discography of Minstrel Recordings -- Appendix 3. Early Recording Artists with Minstrel Experience.

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"The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. While it is seen as a relic of America's deeply shameful and racist past, it also provided the first vehicle by which African-Americans were able to enter the entertainment world. This book investigates the often ignored 20th century history of minstrelsy as it entered the age of mass media, addressing such minstrel stars as Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and Mickey Rooney. Tracing the history of minstrelsy through to its abrupt end in the 1950s, this book is a chronicle of "modern" minstrelsy and America's rapidly changing values"--