Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth century America / Robert C. Toll.

Author/creator Toll, Robert C.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
Descriptionx, 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 noteLittle-84195
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 285-302) and index.
Awards noteTheatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award, 1975
LCCN 74083992
ISBN9780195018202
ISBN0195018206

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