ISBN:
9780252066962
,
025202396X
,
0252066960
,
9780252023965
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 444 S.
,
Ill., Notenbeisp.
Series Statement:
Music in American life
DDC:
791/.12/0973
Keywords:
Minstrel shows History
;
Minstrel music History and criticism
;
Popular culture History 19th century
;
Minstrel shows United States
;
Popular culture United States
;
History
;
19th century
;
Minstrel show
;
Geschichte 1843-1860
Description / Table of Contents:
List of musical examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence -- the playbills -- Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories -- Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera -- Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces -- Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories -- Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60 -- Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60 -- Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
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