Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / William J. Mahar.

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Main Author: Mahar, William J. (William John), 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Series:Music in American life
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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