Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Author: Yuval Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393070980

Download Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actually still alive in the work of contemporary performers--from Dave Chappelle and Flavor Flav to Spike Lee.


Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Yuval Taylor
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

GET EBOOK

Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actua
Birth of an Industry
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Nicholas Sammond
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-27 - Publisher: Duke University Press

GET EBOOK

In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industri
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Michael Pickering
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, tro
Inside the Minstrel Mask
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Annemarie Bean
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11-29 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

GET EBOOK

A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from
Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: Edward Le Roy Rice
Categories: Actors
Type: BOOK - Published: 1911 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK