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Burnt cork : traditions and legacies of blackface minstrelsy
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- Creator
- edited by Stephen Johnson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781613762103, 1558499334, 1558499342, 1613762100, 9781558499348, 9781558499331
- OCLC
- ocn768167101, ocn823777932
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction: the persistence of blackface and the minstrel tradition / Stephen Johnson -- Turning around Jim Crow / W. T. Lhamon Jr. -- Of soundscapes and blackface: from fools to Foster / Dale Cockrell -- Death and the minstrel: race, madness, and art in the last (w)rites of three early blackface performers / Stephen Johnson -- The uncanny history of minstrels and machines, 1835/1923 / Louis Chude-Sokei -- Surprised by blackface: D.W. Griffith and one exciting night / Linda Williams -- "Gentlemen, please be seated": racial masquerade and sadomasochism in 1930's animation / Nicholas Sammond -- From New Deal to no deal: blackface minstrelsy, Bamboozled, and reality television / Alice Maurice -- American ghetto parties and Ghanaian concert parties: a transnational perspective on blackface / Catherine M. Cole