Behind the burnt cork mask
Subtitle: early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture
By: William J. Mahar.
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Minstrel shows -- United States.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-430) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of musical examples; title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence; title: the playbills; title: Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories; title: Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera; title: Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces; title: Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories; title: Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories; title: Conclusion; title: Appendixes; title: Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60; title: Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60; title: Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters; title: Notes; title: Works cited; title: Index.