Yellowface
Subtitle: Creating The Chinese In American Popular Music And Performance, 1850s-1920s
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: January 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813535074
Subjects: Music; Variety shows, music hall, cabaret; Popular music; History and criticism; Social Science; Performing Arts; United States; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Ethnomusicology; Theater - History & Criticism; Chinese Americans
First sentence: THE SYNCHRONIZED PLATE THROWING of the Wesselys, a troupe of five jugglers, received an enormous round of applause as they bowed and walked off the stage.