Darkest America : Black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Yuval.

Contributor:

Austen, Jake.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minstrel shows--United States--History.

Minstrel shows.

Blackface entertainers--United States--History.

Blackface entertainers.

Hip-hop--United States--History.

Hip-hop.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton, [2012]

Summary:

Taylor and Aston explore the enduring impact and practice of black minstrelsy, taking examples from stage, radio, music and song, film, and television, and looking at the positive as well as negative capacity to communicate in black minstrelsy. They consider diverse artists, such as Dave Chappelle, Paul Robeson, Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, as well the 19th-century origins of black-face and associated minstrelsy. To that end, they argue that black minstrels were integral to bringing black, rural folk-culture into mainstream American culture. This study is a sober, but by no means apolitical analysis of black minstrelsy in American culture. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition

Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface

Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified blackface

I'se regusted how Stepin Fetchit, Amos, Andy, and company brought black minstrelsy to the twentieth-century screen

Dyn-o-mite : How Cosby blew up the minstrel tradition, and J.J. put it back together

That's why darkies were born

How black popular singers kept minstrelsy's musical legacy alive

Eazy duz it : how black minstrelsy bum-rushed hip-hop

We just love to dramatize : how Zora Neale Hurston let her black minstrel roots show

New millennium minstrel show : how Spike Lee and Tyler Perry brought the black minstrelsy debate to the twenty-first century

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393070989

0393070980

OCLC:

755704993