Raising Cain - Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

Unearthing long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to consider, and overturning ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Jazz Singer, the author offers an original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.

About the author

W. T. Lhamon, Jr., is Emeritus Professor of English at Florida State University and Lecturer in American Studies at Smith College.

Summary

Unearthing long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to consider, and overturning ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Jazz Singer, the author offers an original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.

Product details

• Authors: W. T. Lhamon, Lhamon W. T.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2000
• EAN: 9780674001930
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00193-0
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: 15 halftones
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; USA, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, Black & Asian Studies, Pageants, parades, festivals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General