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Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth century America Robert C. Toll
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toll, Robert C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--United States--19th century--History and criticism.
- Musicals.
- Minstrel shows.
- Physical Description:
- x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
- Summary:
- From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index.
- Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award, 1975.
- Local Notes:
- Forrest Performing Arts Collection
- ISBN:
- 0195018206
- 9780195018202
- OCLC:
- 1121331
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