Inside the minstrel mask : readings in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy / edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara ; foreword by Mel Watkins.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bean, Annemarie, Hatch, James Vernon, 1928-, McNamara, Brooks
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, c1996.
Subjects:	Minstrel shows > United States > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture / Eric Lott
Performance of the Virginia minstrels / Hans Nathan
Black musicians and early Ethiopian minstrelsy / edited by Eileen Southern
Origin of Negro minstrelsy / Colonel T. Allston Brown
Fun in black / Charles Day
Who are our national poets? / James K. Kennard, Jr.
Blackface minstrelsy / Alexander Saxton
Social commentary in late-nineteenth-century white minstrelsy / Robert C. Toll
Selection of minstrelsy memorabilia
Negro minstrels / Charles Townsend
Hop of fashion / Charles T. White
Speech on woman's rights / from "Dick's Ethiopian scenes, variety sketches, and stump speeches"
Early minstrel show music, 1843-1852 / Robert B. Winans
Georgia minstrels : the early years / Eileen Southern
Ethiopian skits and sketches : contents and contexts of blackface minstrelsy, 1840-1890 / William J. Mahar
Juba and American minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter
Transgressing the gender divide : the female impersonator in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy / Annemarie Bean
Daddy blue : the evolution of the dark dandy / Barbara Lewis
Ebery time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow : cycles of minstrel transgression from Cool White to Vanilla Ice / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.

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