Darkest America Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop

Name: Darkest America Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop
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ISBN: 9780393070989

ISBN-10: 0393070980

ISBN-13: 9780393070989

Edition: 2012

Authors: Yuval Taylor, Jake Austen, Mel Watkins

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Yuval Taylor and Jake Austeninvestigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in themid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinningblackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now considerminstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as ablack art form—and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, blackminstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black entertainment, particularlyin the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle, Flavor Flav, SpikeLee, and Lil Wayne. Darkest America explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of thistradition, exploding the myth that it was a form…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.60" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Yuval Taylor, senior editor at Chicago Review Press, is the coauthor of "Faking It "and the editor of "I Was Born a Slave". He lives in Chicago, Illinois.