Minstrel Traditions - Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Byrne, Kevin James Byrne, Byrne Kevin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780367367640
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36764-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Circus, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling, Theatre Studies, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Performance Art, Black & Asian Studies, C 1900 - C 1914, ART / American / African American & Black