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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mahar, William J. (William John), 1938-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Series:	Music in American life
Subjects:	Minstrel shows > United States. Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

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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