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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Illinois Pr
Publication date
February 1, 1999
Pages
444
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780252023965
ISBN-10
025202396X
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.75 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.75 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$60.00
Other format details
university press
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century.William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask 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.By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Univ of Illinois Pr (February 1, 1999)
9780252023965 | details & prices | 444 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $60.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
With Tino Balio (other contributor) |
from Unwin Hyman (December 1, 1990); titled "Hollywood in the Age of Television"
9780044458364 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $24.95
This edition also contains Hollywood in the Age of Television
About: This is a collection of papers examining the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s to the present.
This edition also contains Hollywood in the Age of Television
About: This is a collection of papers examining the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s to the present.
Paperback
from Univ of Illinois Pr (November 1, 1998)
9780252066962 | details & prices | 444 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $32.00
About: Promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology
About: Promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology
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