New Minstrel and Black Face Joke Book
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 1907
Category : American wit and humor
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 1907
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : Moe Ott
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1908
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476676763
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1907
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393346714
"P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century." —Sebastian Faulks Bertram Wooster’s interminable banjolele playing has driven Jeeves, his otherwise steadfast gentleman's gentleman, to give notice. The foppish aristocrat cannot survive for long without his Shakespeare-quoting and problem-solving valet, however, and after a narrowly escaped forced marriage, a cottage fire, and a great butter theft, the celebrated literary odd couple are happy to return to the way things were.
Author : Nicholas Sammond
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822375788
In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural, political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examining how early animation helped to naturalize virulent racial formations, Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel, but actually pleasurable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how cartoons continue to help to illuminate the central place of race in American cultural and social life.
Author : Paul Emilius Lowe
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : Annemarie Bean
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1996-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819563002
A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Author : Irv Ott
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1909
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : William John Mahar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252066962
The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.