| Description |
xix, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music in American life
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Music in American life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-430) and index. |
| Contents |
List of musical examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence -- the playbills -- Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories -- Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera -- Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces -- Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories -- Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60 -- Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60 -- Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. |
| Subject |
Minstrel shows -- United States.
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Minstrel shows. |
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United States. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Popular culture. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| ISBN |
025202396X acid-free paper |
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0252066960 paperback |
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