The Western Minstrel
Author : Peter J. F. Herbert
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9780956260833
Author : Peter J. F. Herbert
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9780956260833
Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135863679
As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are enjoying unexpected fame in the U.S. At the same time, in an era of unprecedented immigration and globalization, people all over the world are using music as way to preserve their local and ethnic identity. Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music is an accessible introduction to international music and culture. Including conversations with dozens of artists from five continents, it explores the breadth of the world music experience through the voices of the musicians themselves. In the process, it gives a unique view of the interactions of a globalizing society and introduces readers to some of the most fascinating and thoughtful artists working on the current scene. Artists profiled include Oumou Sangare, Caetano Veloso, Ravi Shankar, Paco de Lucía, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and many more.
Author : William John Mahar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,16 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.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Catharine Mitchell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338231200X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Richard Wiley
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Fiction
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A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, written by a PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
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File Size : 19,14 MB
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Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 23,53 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 : 494 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 1902
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