Behind the Burnt Cork Mask Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture |
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| Author:
| Mahar, William J. |
| Series title: | Music in American Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-06696-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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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, ......
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, ......