Birth of a notion ; or, the half ain't never been told : a narrative account with entertaining passages of the state of Minstrelsy & of America & the true relation thereof (from the ha ha dark side) /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Bill, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Made in Michigan writers series.
Temas:
African Americans > Poetry.
Minstrel music.
Noirs américains > Poésie.
Musique de ménestrels (Théâtre américain)
POETRY > American > General.
African Americans
Minstrel music
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History > Poetry.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > Poésie.
United States
History
Poetry
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: In the Beginning
  • Chapter 1 Treats of the Parallel Rise of the Industrial Revolution, the Blues, Radical Abolitionism & Mechanical & Martial Time
  • Chapter 2 Treats on the Parallel Rise of Radical Abolitionism, American-Born Blackface, Immigrant Upper-Lower & Lower-Middle Classes, and Their Indoctrination in the Ways of American Life & Free-Time
  • Chapter 3 A Brief Passage on the Emergence of the Democratic Party, Daddy Rice, Uncle Sam, Indians & “Discovery, â€? 1832
  • Chapter 4 Treats of Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Invention of the Common Man, the Jacksonian Era, and Indians Conceding Their LandsChapter 5 The Middle Passage: P.T. Barnum, History as Entertainment in Multi Voices, 1835â€?1842
  • Chapter 6 A Middle Passage, or Bridge: Traversed by Frederick Douglass, William Henry Lane, and a Sense of the Increased Speed of Things, 1843â€?1848
  • Chapter 7 Daddy Rice Runs the Doo Doo Down: Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown Turn Up the Heat, 1848â€?1870
  • Chapter 8 The Civil War & Beyond Back to Where We Began: And Notions of High & Low Culture.
  • Dividing to Conquer, 186?â€?1871Chapter 9 Reprise of the Bridge Crossing Theme: A Variation with a Blues Tinge
  • Chapter 10 Reconstruction & Beyond: William T. Sherman, Eadweard Muybridge & Syncopated Loco-Motion of Moving Images & the Transcontinental Railroad, 1871â€?1877
  • Chapter 11 Jim Crow Crosses Over from Entertainment to Law, the Parallel Rise of Klan-Whiteface in White Face & Black Faced Blackface & Slave Spirituals

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