Jim Crow, American - Selected Songs and Plays

Informationen zum Autor Actor T. D. Rice (1806–1860) popularized the Jim Crow character on the American stage. W. T. Lhamon, Jr., is Emeritus Professor of English at Florida State University and Lecturer in American Studies at Smith College. Klappentext Jim Crow has long represented Americäs imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances assembling backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style. They celebrate blackness in a Republic that failed to unite until Americans agreed to disagree over Jim Crow¿s meaning. Zusammenfassung Jim Crow has long represented America’s imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances assembling backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style. They celebrate blackness in a Republic that failed to unite until Americans agreed to disagree over Jim Crow’s meaning.

Product details

• Authors: T D Rice, T. D. Rice
• Assisted by: W T Lhamon (Editor), W. T. Lhamon (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780674035935
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03593-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: John Harvard Library; John Harvard Library (Paperbac; The John Harvard Library; John Harvard Library (Paperbac
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology