Minstrel Traditions

Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age offers a series of interlocking case studies which surveys racial and racist inscriptions of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.

Autorentext

Kevin Byrne is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television at the University of Arizona. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. His research interests include African American theatre history, theories of racial impersonation, and contemporary performance practices.

Klappentext

Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age offers a series of interlocking case studies which surveys racial and racist inscriptions of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.

Zusammenfassung
Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age offers a series of interlocking case studies which surveys racial and racist inscriptions of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Materiality and Circulation of Blackface in the Jazz Age; Chapter Two: Bert Williams and the Uprooted Bamboo Tree: "One Live as Two, Two Live as One"; Chapter Three: Self-Rising Minstrelsy: Aunt Jemima Mediated and Live; Chapter Four: A Vast and Limited Territory: The Amateur Minstrel Industry of Publishing Houses, Playwrights, and Acting Companies; Chapter Five: Minstrelsy, On the Time: Professional Blackface Performers Travel the Country; Chapter Six: Black Musicals on Broadway: "Back Up No'th with Me, Mammy"; Chapter Seven: And All That Followed: Performing Jazz Age Blackface in the Contemporary Moment