Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-331) and index. |
Contents |
Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition -- Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black -- Of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface -- Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified blackface -- I'se regusted : how Stepin Fetchit, Amos, Andy, and company brought black minstrelsy to the twentieth-century screen -- Dyn-o-mite : How Cosby blew up black minstrelsy, and J.J. put it back together -- That's why darkies were born : how black popular singers kept minstrelsy's musical legacy alive -- Eazy duz it : how black minstrelsy bum-rushed hip-hop -- We just love to dramatize : how Zora Neale Hurston let her black minstrel roots show -- New millennium minstrel show : how Spike Lee and Tyler Perry brought the black minstrelsy debate to the twenty-first century -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
Subject |
Minstrel shows -- United States -- History.
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Blackface entertainers -- United States -- History.
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Hip-hop -- United States -- History.
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Added Author |
Austen, Jake.
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ISBN |
9780393070989 hardcover $26.95 |
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0393070980 hardcover |
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