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Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (Hardcover, New edition)
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Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular
culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual
two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the
Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of
blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the
distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical
study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of
the significant role it played in Britain as a form of song, music
and theatrical entertainment. Minstrelsy had a marked impact on
popular music, dance and other aspects of popular culture, both in
Britain and the United States. Its impact in the United States fed
into significant song and music genres that were assimilated in
Britain, from ragtime and jazz onwards, but prior to these
influences, minstrelsy in Britain developed many distinct features
and was adapted to operate within various conventions, themes and
traditions in British popular culture. Pickering provides a
convincing counter-argument to the assumption among writers in the
United States that blackface was exclusively American and its
British counterpart purely imitative. Minstrelsy was not confined
to its value as song, music and dance. Jokes at the expense of
black people along with demeaning racial stereotypes were integral
to minstrel shows. As a form of popular entertainment, British
minstrelsy created a cultural low-Other that offered confirmation
of white racial ascendancy and imperial dominion around the world.
The book attends closely to how this influence on colonialism and
imperialism operated and proved ideologically so effective. At the
same time British minstrelsy cannot be reduced to its racist and
imperialist connections. Enormously important as those connections
are, Pickering demonstrates the complexity of the subject by
insisting that the minstrel show and minstrel performers are
understood also in terms of their own theatrical dynamics, talent
and appeal.
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