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Jump Jim Crow - Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture (Hardcover, New): W.T. Lhamon Jump Jim Crow - Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture (Hardcover, New)
W.T. Lhamon
R1,770 Discovery Miles 17 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. "Jump Jim Crow" brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow's first appearance.

Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice--never before published as their original audiences saw them--W. T. Lhamon Jr. provides a reconstruction of their performance history and a provocative analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England.

Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.

Jim Crow, American - Selected Songs and Plays (Paperback): T. D. Rice Jim Crow, American - Selected Songs and Plays (Paperback)
T. D. Rice; Edited by W.T. Lhamon
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jim Crow is the figure that has long represented America s imperfect union. When the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage in blackface as Jim Crow, during the 1830s, a ragged and charismatic trickster began channeling black folklore through American popular culture. This compact edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances that assembled backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style. Quite contrary to Jim Crow s reputation which is to say, the term s later meaning these early acts undermine both racism and slavery. They celebrate an irresistibly attractive blackness in a young Republic that had failed to come together until Americans agreed to disagree over Jim Crow s meaning.

As they permeated American popular culture, these distinctive themes formed a template which anticipated minstrel shows, vaudeville, ragtime, jazz, early talking film, and rock n roll. They all show whites using rogue blackness to rehearse their mutual disaffection and uneven exclusion.

Deliberate Speed - The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): W.T. Lhamon Deliberate Speed - The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
W.T. Lhamon
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

W. T. Lhamon 's "Deliberate Speed" is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic terrain of the period - examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein - Lhamon demonstates how many of the distinctive elements that so many attribute to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s. Taking his title from Chief Justice Earl Warren's desegregation decree of 1955, Lhamon shows how this phrase, "deliberate speed," resonates throughout the culture of the entire decade. The 1950s was a period of transition - a time when the United States began its shift from an industrial society to a postindustrial society, and the era when the first barriers between African-American culture and white culture began to come down. "Deliberate Speed" is the story of a nation and a culture making the rapid transition to the increasingly complex world that we inhabit today.

Raising Cain - Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop (Paperback, Revised): W.T. Lhamon Raising Cain - Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop (Paperback, Revised)
W.T. Lhamon
R1,135 Discovery Miles 11 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow we're still dancing to its renegade tune. The story of an insubordinate, rebellious, truly popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to hip hop is told for the first time in Raising Cain, a provocative look at how the outcasts of official culture have made their own place in the world. Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to handle, and overturning cherished ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Benito Cereno to The Jazz Singer, W. T. Lhamon Jr. sets out a startlingly original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating. He shows that early blackface, dating back to the 1830s, put forward an interpretation of blackness as that which endured a commonly felt scorn and often outwitted it. To follow the subsequent turns taken by the many forms of blackface is to pursue the way modern social shifts produce and disperse culture. Raising Cain follows these forms as they prolong and adapt folk performance and popular rites for industrial commerce, then project themselves into the rougher modes of postmodern life through such heirs of blackface as stand-up comedy, rock 'n' roll, talk TV, and hip hop. Formally raising Cain in its myriad variants, blackface appears here as a racial project more radical even than abolitionism. Lhamon's account of its provenance and persistence is a major reinterpretation of American culture.

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