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Beyond Blackface
Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807834629
Beyond Blackface
Author : Akil Houston
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Chinua Thelwell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625345172
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, 2011.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans in mass media
ISBN : 9780757538049
Author : D. Akil Houston
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780757567551
Author : Carolyn Finney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1469614480
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Author : Henry T. Sampson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1573 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810883511
Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American musical comedies performed on the stage between 1900 and 1940. An invaluable resource for scholars and historians focused on African American culture, this new edition features significantly revised, expanded, and new material. In Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows, Henry T. Sampson provides an unprecedented wealth of information on legitimate musical comedies, including show synopses, casts, songs, and production credits. Sampson also recounts the struggles of African American performers and producers to overcome the racial prejudice of white show owners, music publishers, theatre managers, and booking agents to achieve adequate financial compensation for their talents and managerial expertise. Black producers and artists competed with white managers who were producing all-Black shows and also with some white entertainers who were performing Black-developed music and dances, often in blackface. The chapters in this volume include: An overview of African American musical shows from the end of the Civil War through the golden years of the 1920s and ’30s New and expanded biographical sketches of performers Detailed information about the first producers and owners of Black minstrel and musical comedy shows Origins and backgrounds of several famous Black theatres Profiles of African American entrepreneurs and businessmen who provided financial resources to build and own many of the Black theatres where these shows were performed A chronicle of booking agencies and organized Black theatrical circuits, music publishing houses, and phonograph recording businesses Critical commentary from African American newspapers and show business publications More than 500 hundred rare photographs A comprehensive volume that covers all aspects of Black musical shows performed in theatres, nightclubs, circuses, and medicine shows, this edition of Blacks in Blackface can be used as a reference for serious scholars and researchers of Black show business in the United States before 1940. More than double the size of the previous edition, this useful resource will also appeal to the casual reader who is interested in learning more about early Black entertainment.
Author : W. T. Lhamon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674747111
Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow we're still dancing to its renegade tune. The story of an insubordinate, rebellious, truly popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to hip hop is told for the first time in Raising Cain, a provocative look at how the outcasts of official culture have made their own place in the world. Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to handle, and overturning cherished ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Benito Cereno to The Jazz Singer, W. T. Lhamon Jr. sets out a startlingly original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating. He shows that early blackface, dating back to the 1830s, put forward an interpretation of blackness as that which endured a commonly felt scorn and often outwitted it. To follow the subsequent turns taken by the many forms of blackface is to pursue the way modern social shifts produce and disperse culture. Raising Cain follows these forms as they prolong and adapt folk performance and popular rites for industrial commerce, then project themselves into the rougher modes of postmodern life through such heirs of blackface as stand-up comedy, rock 'n' roll, talk TV, and hip hop. Formally raising Cain in its myriad variants, blackface appears here as a racial project more radical even than abolitionism. Lhamon's account of its provenance and persistence is a major reinterpretation of American culture.
Author : Kimberly Chabot Davis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252096312
Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In Beyond the White Negro, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice. Though acknowledging past failures to establish cross-racial empathy, she focuses on examples that show avenues for future progress and change. Her study of ethnographic data from book clubs and college classrooms shows how engagement with African American culture and pedagogical support can lead to the kinds of white self-examination that make empathy possible. The result is a groundbreaking text that challenges the trend of focusing on society's failures in achieving cross-racial empathy and instead explores possible avenues for change.
Author : Robert M. Entman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226210766
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans through the images the media show. This text offers a look at the racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of whites toward blacks.