Darkest America : black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.

Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and...

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Main Authors: Taylor, Yuval (Author), Austen, Jake (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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Call Number: PN1969.M5 T39 2012
Status: Available