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Author:

Mahar, William J. (William John), 1938-

Title:

Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / William J. Mahar.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xix, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Minstrel shows--United States.
Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.

Contents:

List of musical examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence -- the playbills -- Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories -- Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera -- Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces -- Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories -- Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60 -- Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60 -- Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Series:

Music in American life

ISBN:

9780252066962 (pbk.)
0252066960 (pbk.)
9780252023965 (acid-free paper)
025202396X (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37615500

LCCN:

97033851

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)