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Demons of Disorder - Early Blackface Minstrels and their World (Hardcover, New)
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Demons of Disorder - Early Blackface Minstrels and their World (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama
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Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even
early versions of the Santa Claus myth - all of these forms of
entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the
first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study
Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of
race and class by analysing their cultural expressions, and
investigates the roots of still remembered songs such as 'Jim
Crow', 'Zip Coon', and 'Dan Tucker'. Also examined is the character
George Washington Dixon, the man most deserving of the title
'father of blackface minstrelsy' and surely one of celebrity's
all-time heavyweight eccentrics - a bonafide 'demon of disorder'.
The first book on the blackface tradition written by a leading
musicologist, Demons of Disorder is an important achievement in
music history and culture.
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