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Author Taylor, Yuval.

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

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  791.12 TAY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  791.12 T21    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  791.12 TAYLOR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  791.1209 TAYLOR    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  791.12 TA    Check Shelf
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.
Blackface entertainers -- United States -- History.
Hip-hop -- United States -- History.
Added Author Austen, Jake.
ISBN 9780393070989 hardcover $26.95
0393070980 hardcover
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