Beyond blackface : African Americans and the creation of American popular culture, 1890-1930 /

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Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 373 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11098614
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Other authors / contributors:Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959-
ISBN:9780807878026
0807878022
9781469602967
1469602962
9780807834626
0807834629
9780807871843
0807871842
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Bringing together original work by 16 scholars in various disciplines, this volume addresses the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs & consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century.
Other form:Print version: Beyond blackface. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834626
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Summary:This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century.<br> <br> <br> <br> Moving beyond the familiar territory of blackface and minstrelsy, these essays present a fresh look at the history of African Americans and mass culture. With subjects ranging from representations of race in sheet music illustrations to African American interest in Haitian culture, Beyond Blackface recovers the history of forgotten or obscure cultural figures and shows how these historical actors played a role in the creation of American mass culture. The essays explore the predicament that blacks faced at a time when white supremacy crested and innovations in consumption, technology, and leisure made mass culture possible. Underscoring the importance and complexity of race in the emergence of mass culture, Beyond Blackface depicts popular culture as a crucial arena in which African Americans struggled to secure a foothold as masters of their own representation and architects of the nation's emerging consumer society.<br> <br> <br> <br> The contributors are:<br> <br> Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College<br> <br> W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br> <br> Clare Corbould, University of Sydney<br> <br> Susan Curtis, Purdue University<br> <br> Stephanie Dunson, Williams College<br> <br> Lewis A. Erenberg, Loyola University Chicago<br> <br> Stephen Garton, University of Sydney<br> <br> John M. Giggie, University of Alabama<br> <br> Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia<br> <br> Robert Jackson, University of Tulsa<br> <br> David Krasner, Emerson College<br> <br> Thomas Riis, University of Colorado at Boulder<br> <br> Stephen Robertson, University of Sydney<br> <br> John Stauffer, Harvard University<br> <br> Graham White, University of Sydney<br> <br> Shane White, University of Sydney<br> <br>
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 373 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780807878026
0807878022
9781469602967
1469602962
9780807834626
0807834629
9780807871843
0807871842