ISBN:
9780252038259
,
9780252079832
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 242 S.
,
Ill.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
390.250973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1900
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
;
PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General
;
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
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Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Sklaverei
;
Slaves Songs and music
;
Slaves Social life and customs
;
Race in the theater History
;
Theater and society History
;
African American dance History
;
Slavery Justification
;
Plantation life
;
Racism in popular culture History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
;
PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General
;
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
;
Musik
;
Zwang
;
Schwarze
;
Sklave
;
Aufführung
;
Tanz
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Sklave
;
Aufführung
;
Musik
;
Tanz
;
Zwang
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
Abstract:
"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"..
Note:
Bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42767
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