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Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that
cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed.
Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and
most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they
inform cultural perceptions differently from literary or visual art
forms, which tend to be more tangible and stable. In Yellowface,
Krystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers,
producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music
and performance has played an important role in constructing
Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life
the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. During this time, Chinese and Chinese American musicians
and performers appeared in a variety of venues, including museums,
community theaters, and world's fairs, where they displayed their
cultural heritage and contested anti-Chinese attitudes. A smaller
number crossed over into vaudeville and performed non-Chinese
materials. Moon shows how these performers carefully navigated
between racist attitudes and their own artistic desires. While many
scholars have studied both African American music and blackface
minstrelsy, little attention has been given to Chinese and Chinese
American music. This book provides a rare look at the way that
immigrants actively participated in the creation, circulation, and,
at times, subversion of Chinese stereotypes through their musical
and performance work.
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