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

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture, 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 enter, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture, 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 enter, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
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  • Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
  • Written by author William J. Mahar
  • Published by University of Illinois Press, November 1998
  • 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 enter
  • 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 enter
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Preface
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Introduction1
1Revisiting Minstrelsy's History: The Playbill and Contextual Evidence9
The Playbills42
2Blackface Parodies of American Speech and Rhetoric: Burlesque Lectures and Sermons, Political Orations, Comic Dialogues, and Stories59
3Opera for the Masses: Burlesques of English and Italian Opera101
4Ethiopian Sketches of American Life: Skits, Farces, and Afterpieces157
5Blackface Minstrelsy, Masculinity, and Social Rituals in Vocal and Choral Repertories195
6Blackface Minstrelsy and Misogyny in Vocal and Choral Repertories268
Conclusion329
App. ARepresentative Minstrel Companies and Personnel in Playbills and Newspaper Advertisements, 1843-60355
App. BRepresentative Concluding Numbers from Selected Minstrel Shows, 1843-60364
App. CSong Text Frequency in Selected Antebellum Songsters367
Notes369
Works Cited413
Index431


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