The Minstrel Show
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A History Of The Minstrel Show
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Author : Frank W. Sweet
language : en
Publisher: Backintyme
Release Date : 2000-09-01
A History Of The Minstrel Show written by Frank W. Sweet and has been published by Backintyme this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The Blackface Minstrel Show In Mass Media
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Author : Tim Brooks
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-11-15
The Blackface Minstrel Show In Mass Media written by Tim Brooks and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with Social Science categories.
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
Blacking Up
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Author : Robert C. Toll
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1974
Blacking Up written by Robert C. Toll and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Blackface categories.
From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
Gentlemen Be Seated
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Author : Marc Bauch
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011
Gentlemen Be Seated written by Marc Bauch and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Document from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: --, Saarland University (Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: A native form of entertainment that came up in around 1843 was the minstrel show. The minstrel show was a show that consisted of melodies by slaves and jokes by white actors in blackface in order to imitate the blacks. Led by Mr. Interlocutor, the master of ceremonies, three more actors in blackface sat in a semicircle. The endmen or cornermen were known as Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo, who joked together or made fun of slaves. Thus, the minstrel show was double-edged: on the one hand, racism in the United States was reinforced; on the other hand, so many white Americans have become aware of black popular culture. No wonder therefore, the rise of the minstrel show coincided with the growth of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century. But without doubt, racial discrimination was played down in the minstrel show. The minstrel show was meant as a form of entertainment, which was not intended to be taken seriously. Although the minstrel aimed to create a native and distinctly American form of entertainment, the songs they adopted were of English, Irish or Scottish origin. Furthermore, they presented parodies of European-style entertainment or parodied works by William Shakespeare. The book gives an overview of the history of the minstrel show. Marc A. Bauch is a scholar of American Literature and has specialized in American Theater, including the American Musical.
Blacking Up
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Author : Robert C. Toll
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1974
Blacking Up written by Robert C. Toll and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Blackface categories.
From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
Men In Blackface
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Author : Seymour Stark
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2001-11-07
Men In Blackface written by Seymour Stark and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-07 with Performing Arts categories.
Contents The Minstrel Show Will Never Die Jim Crow and Tom Thumb Irishness of it All Irving Berlin Titillates Gershwins Racial Profiling Jews in Blackface Jolson the Shlemiel Strutting to Redemption Endnotes -------------------------------- How New York City, the Birthplace of Blackface, Defined Humor and Race for 100 Years (MIB: 12-17) Jim Crow, a blackface stage character, lends his name to the pernicious practice of racial segregation. Native New Yorker Tom Rice performed "Jim Crow" at the Bowery Theatre in 1832. (MIB: 22-24) Edwin P. Christy established the first permanent minstrel hall at 472 Broadway in New York City in 1847. Christy created the stylized format which endured for 10 decades. Why Irish Americans Wore Blackface (MIB: 18-19) Dan Emmets "Dixie", written as a minstrel tune, became the Confederate anthem. In an earlier minstrel song, Emmett romanticized slavery: "Ill dance all night an work all day." (MIB: 46-48) Ned Harrigan, the grandfather of the Broadway musical, pitted on stage the Irish Mulligan Guard in 1879 against the black (white actors in blackface) Skidmore Guard--"Ten platoons of dandy coons." The Blackface Burden of Jewishness (MIB: 73-78) Irving Berlin, son of a cantor, penned his first "coon song" in 1909, and added eight more to his "coon song" cycle. Berlin staged blackface minstrel shows for the Army in both World War I and World War II. His 1942 film, "Holiday Inn", introduced "White Christmas" and Bing Crosby in blackface. (MIB: 101-138) Al Jolson in blackface made the first talking motion picture in 1927. In each of his eight Hollywood films over two decades, Jolson weaved the theme of Jewishness into the blackface minstrel show. He is the worldwide icon of blackface.
Inside The Minstrel Mask
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Author : Annemarie Bean
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 1996-11-29
Inside The Minstrel Mask written by Annemarie Bean and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-29 with History categories.
A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Birth Of An Industry
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Author : Nicholas Sammond
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-27
Birth Of An Industry written by Nicholas Sammond and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Performing Arts categories.
In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural, political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examining how early animation helped to naturalize virulent racial formations, Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel, but actually pleasurable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how cartoons continue to help to illuminate the central place of race in American cultural and social life.
The 21st Century Hip Hop Minstrel Show
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Author : Raphael Heaggans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The 21st Century Hip Hop Minstrel Show written by Raphael Heaggans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African Americans categories.
Rap music empowered people during its heyday. However, some elements within hip-hop music date back to slavery. The formation of baggy pants, gangs, glorification of prisons, objectification of women, pimping, celebration of the ghetto, and odes to marijuana have become consistent themes within hip hop that aides in psychologically affecting youths' perceptions about Black life around the world. These stereotypic images of Blacks were perpetuated in the minstrel show by Whites-in blackface in the 1800s-as a means of entertaining other Whites. Today, some Black male hip hop artists perpetuate such false stereotypic portrayals of Black life for the entertainment of a mostly-suburbanite audience. These portrayals perpetuate the legacy of slavery while the Black male hip-hop artist is making pennies compared to the big bucks the recording and distribution companies are earning off the backs of any willing Black male hip-hop artist who will degrade himself and his race in great stereotypic proportions. This stance goes against what our Black, White, gay, and Jewish ancestors fought against during slavery and the Civil Rights Movement. Raphael Heaggans is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Niagara University. His educational background is in Multicultural Education. He is a former college administrator and 7th and 8th grade language arts teacher. He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
Love Theft
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Author : Eric Lott
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Love Theft written by Eric Lott and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with History categories.
Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War.