Demons of Disorder
Early Blackface Minstrels and their World
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama; 8;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 July 1997
- ISBN 9780521560740
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 235x158x21 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth - all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analysing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still remembered songs such as 'Jim Crow', 'Zip Coon', and 'Dan Tucker'. Also examined is the character George Washington Dixon, the man most deserving of the title 'father of blackface minstrelsy' and surely one of celebrity's all-time heavyweight eccentrics - a bonafide 'demon of disorder'. The first book on the blackface tradition written by a leading musicologist, Demons of Disorder is an important achievement in music history and culture.
"...merits the attention of students and scholars in theater, anthropology, law, and sociology, as well as music....Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice
Table of Contents:
1. Blackface on the early American stage; 2. Blackface in the streets; 3. Jim Crow; 4. Zip Coon; 5. Old Dan Tucker.
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