Unperforming the Minstrel Mask
Author: Daniel Banks
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages:
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Inside the Minstrel Mask
Author: Annemarie Bean
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1996-11-29
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780819563002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask
Author: William John Mahar
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780252066962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.
A Boal Companion
Author: Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-02
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1134351291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal’s work is the first to look ’beyond Boal’ and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context. A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory – Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology – to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship between Boal’s project and multiple fields of social psychology, ethics, biology, comedy, trauma studies and political science is made visible. The ideas generated throughout A Boal Companion will: expand readers' understanding of TO as a complex, interdisciplinary, multivocal body of philosophical discourses provide a variety of lenses through which to practice and critique TO make explicit the relationship between TO and other bodies of work. This collection is ideal for TO practitioners and scholars who want to expand their knowledge, but it also provides unfamiliar readers and new students to the discipline with an excellent study resource.
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
Author: Harvey Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1009359584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
Coloring Whiteness
Author: Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014-11-10
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0472052365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists
Camille Billops
Author: Savannah L. Garman
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of the Minstrel Show
Author: Frank W. Sweet
Publisher: Backintyme
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780939479214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scene of Harlem Cabaret
Author: Shane Vogel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0226862526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
Love and Theft
Author: Eric Lott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine Negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.
