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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask - Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask - Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
Series: Music in American Life
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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. Drawing on an
unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches,
monologues, and music, William J. Mahar explores the racist
practices of minstrel entertainers and considers their performances
as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and
culture in the nineteenth century. Mahar 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. Locating minstrel performances within their complex sites
of production, Mahar reassesses the historiography of the field.
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