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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

by William J. Mahar

ISBN: 9780252066962
ISBN10: 0252066960

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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

by William J. Mahar

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Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Publish date: 11/01/1998
ISBN: 9780252066962
ISBN10: 0252066960

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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.

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