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Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama, cartea 8

Autor Dale Cockrell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 1997
Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth - all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analysing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still remembered songs such as 'Jim Crow', 'Zip Coon', and 'Dan Tucker'. Also examined is the character George Washington Dixon, the man most deserving of the title 'father of blackface minstrelsy' and surely one of celebrity's all-time heavyweight eccentrics - a bonafide 'demon of disorder'. The first book on the blackface tradition written by a leading musicologist, Demons of Disorder is an important achievement in music history and culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521568289
ISBN-10: 0521568285
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 16 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Blackface on the early American stage; 2. Blackface in the streets; 3. Jim Crow; 4. Zip Coon; 5. Old Dan Tucker.

Recenzii

"...merits the attention of students and scholars in theater, anthropology, law, and sociology, as well as music....Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice
"In this original and subtly written work, Cockrell demonstrates the value of a focused analysis of minstrlsy in a particular time and place--an approach that stands to enhance the study of all periods of minstrel history. Demons of Disorder offers an important corrective to postmodernist scholarship in asserting that understanding cultural meanings requires not simply theoretical speculation but careful examination of the historical record." Howard L. Sacks, American Music
"...required reading for anyone wishing to grasp the depth of meaning and the range of opinion on blackface minstrelsy." Brian Thompson, Notes
"This book, which unpacks so much about the phenomenon clearly and provocatively, deserves our close attention." Ethnomusicology
"...a highly creative study of blackface minstrelsy, adds to an already impressive literature on the subject." Journal of Social History

Descriere

A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.