Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth century America / Robert C. Toll.
| Author/creator | Toll, Robert C. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 1974. |
| Description | x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The emergence of a "common man's culture" -- The evolution of the minstrel show -- Images of Negroes in antebellum minstrelsy -- Minstrels fight the Civil War -- The grand transformation: minstrelsy after the Civil War -- Social commentary in late nineteenth-century white minstrelsy -- Black men take the stage -- Puttin' on the makes: the content of black minstrelsy. |
| Abstract | This book provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the minstrel show, and is the first book to portray minstrelsy as an institution that spoke for and to huge numbers of common Americans. |
| Local note | Little-84195 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 285-302) and index. |
| Awards note | Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award, 1975 |
| LCCN | 74083992 |
| ISBN | 9780195018202 |
| ISBN | 0195018206 |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML1711 .T64 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |