Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture Paperback - 1998
by William J. Mahar
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Blackface minstrelsy was "the national art of its moment ... the soundtrack for the American 1848."
From the rear cover
Blackface conventions both criticized the changes occurring in antebellum American life and helped shape images of race, gender, and class. Through the songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface, white performers could satirize majority values without directly attacking them. Burnt cork served as a masking device for these entertainers, shielding them from any direct personal identification with the material they were performing.
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask reassesses relationships between blackface comedy and other genres and traditions of Western theater; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; between blackface performance and socially constructed identities; and between "popular" and "elite" culture.
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- Title Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
- Author William J. Mahar
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 472
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date December 1, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780252066962 / 0252066960
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 8.91 x 6 x 1.01 in (22.63 x 15.24 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - United States - History -, Minstrel shows - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-3351
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.120
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Citations
- Library Journal, 01/01/1999, Page 0
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