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Raising Cain
Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop
Häftad, 2000
369 kr
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Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow we're still dancing to its renegade tune. The …
Deliberate Speed
The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface
Häftad, 2002
373 kr
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W. T. Lhamon 's Deliberate Speed is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic terrain of the period--examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, …
Jump Jim Crow
Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2003
931 kr
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Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered—and forever transformed—American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and …
Jim Crow, American
Selected Songs and Plays
Av T. D. Rice, W. T. Lhamon Jr.
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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Jim Crow is the figure that has long represented America’s imperfect union. When the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage in blackface as Jim Crow, during the 1830s, a ragged and charismatic trickster began channeling black folklore through American popular culture. This compact edition of …
