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8%OFFWilliam J. Mahar - Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture - 9780252066962 - V9780252066962
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

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Description for Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture Paperback. Promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 472 pages, 56 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 634.

The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Drawing on an unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music, William J. Mahar explores the racist practices of minstrel entertainers and considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. 

Mahar investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. Locating minstrel performances within their ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Series
Music in American Life
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066962
SKU
V9780252066962
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About William J. Mahar
William J. Mahar (d. 2018) was a professor of music at Penn State Harrisburg.

Reviews for Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2000. "Make[s] available much valuable and fascinating material found nowhere else in the literature on blackface minstrelsy, so much so that Behind the Burnt Cork Mask can itself serve as a primary source for further research."
Charles Hamm, Journal of the American Musicological Society

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