Demons of Disorder

A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.

List of contents

1. Blackface on the early American stage; 2. Blackface in the streets; 3. Jim Crow; 4. Zip Coon; 5. Old Dan Tucker.

Summary

In Demons of Disorder, the first book on the blackface tradition, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analysing the cultural expressions of blackface minstrels, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs.

Product details

• Authors: Dale Cockrell
• Assisted by: Don B. Wilmeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780521568289
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56828-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 424 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history