Love and Theft Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Name: Love and Theft Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
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ISBN: 9780195320558

ISBN-10: 0195320557

ISBN-13: 9780195320558

Edition: 220th 2013

Authors: Eric Lott, Greil Marcus

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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America."Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and…

Book details

Edition: 220th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Greil Marcus is the author of "Invisible Republic," "Dead Elvis," "Lipstick Traces," & "Mystery Train." His pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications, including "Artforum," "Interview," "The New Yorker," "The New York Times," & "Esquire." He will be teaching at Princeton & Berkeley in fall 2000.



Foreword to the 20th-Anniversary Edition



Acknowledgments


Introduction






Blackface and Blackness: The Minstrel Show in American Culture



Love and Theft: "Racial" Production and the Social Unconscious of Blackface



White Kids and No Kids At All: Working-Class Culture and Languages of Race



The Blackening of America: Popular Culture and National Cultures






"The Seeming Counterfeit": Early Blackface Acts, the Body, and Social Contradiction



"Genuine Negro Fun": Racial Pleasure and Class Formation in the 1840s



California Gold and European Revolution: Stephen Foster and the American 1848



Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production


Afterword to the Original Edition


Afterword to the 20th-Anniversary Edition


Notes


Bibliography


Index