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The blackface minstrel show in mass media : 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television
- Title
- The blackface minstrel show in mass media : 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television / Tim Brooks.
- Author
- Brooks, Tim
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- vii, 282 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- 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 archeophone.com. -- From Amazon.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Origins of blackface minstrelsy -- Minstrel show on records -- Minstrel show on radio -- Minstrel show in motion pictures -- Minstrel show on television -- Epilogue and conclusions.
- Call Number
- Sc F 20-132
- ISBN
- 9781476676760
- 1476676763
- OCLC
- 1089493854
- Author
- Brooks, Tim, author.
- Title
- The blackface minstrel show in mass media : 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television / Tim Brooks.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 20-132