Scandalzie My Name: Black Imagery in American Popular Music by Dennison, Sam - 1982

New York: Garland Publishing, 1982. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean.). Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xxiii, 594 pp; bw illustrations. Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The beginnings -- Antecedents of the minstrel show -- The minstrel show -- The abolition movement versus minstrelsy -- Civil War -- From reconstruction to the 1880's -- The pseudo-spiritual -- From the gay nineties through the First World War -- From the 1920's to World War II -- Executive Order 8802 and after -- Appendix I : Charles Mathews and American minstrelsy -- Appendix II : Method.