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Minstrel Traditions - Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age (Hardcover)
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Minstrel Traditions - Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age (Hardcover)
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Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age explores
the place and influence of black racial impersonation in US society
during a crucial and transitional time period. Minstrelsy was
absorbed into mass-culture media that was either invented or
reached widespread national prominence during this era: advertising
campaigns, audio recordings, radio broadcasts, and film. Minstrel
Traditions examines the methods through which minstrelsy's elements
connected with the public and how these conventions reified the
racism of the time. This book explores blackface and minstrelsy
through a series of overlapping case studies which illustrate the
extent to which blackface thrived in the early twentieth century.
It contextualizes and analyzes the last musical of black
entertainer Bert Williams, the surprising live career of pancake
icon Aunt Jemima, a flourishing amateur minstrel industry,
blackface acts of African American vaudeville, and the black
Broadway shows which brought new musical styles and dances to the
American consciousness. All reflect, and sometimes incorporate, the
mass-culture technologies of the time, either in their subject
matter or method of distribution. Retrograde blackface seamlessly
transitioned from live to mediated iterations of these cultural
products, further pushing black stereotypes into the national
consciousness. The book project oscillates between two different
types of performances: the live and the mediated. By focusing on
how minstrelsy in the Jazz Age moved from live performance into
mediatized technologies, the book adds to the intellectual and
historical conversation regarding this pernicious, racist
entertainment form. Jazz Age blackface helped normalize new media
technologies and that technology extended minstrelsy's influence
within US culture. Minstrel Traditions tracks minstrelsy's social
impact over the course of two decades to examine how ideas of
national identity employ racial nostalgias and fantasias. This book
will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in theatre
studies, communication studies, race and media, and musical
scholarship
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