Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture /

Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lhamon, W. T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Rice, Tom, > 1808-1860.
Rice, Tom, > 1808-1860
1800-1899
African Americans > Literary collections.
Social classes > Literary collections.
Popular literature > United States.
American literature > 19th century.
Blackface entertainers > History.
African Americans in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Minstrel shows > History.
Black people in literature.
Race in literature.
Noirs américains > Anthologies.
Classes sociales > Anthologies.
Paralittérature > États-Unis.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle.
Blackface (Artistes du spectacle) > Histoire.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
Spectacles de ménestrels (Théâtre américain) > Histoire.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
African Americans
African Americans in literature
American literature
Blackface entertainers
Black people in literature
Minstrel shows
Popular literature
Race in literature
Social classes
Social classes in literature
Populaire cultuur.
Zwarten.
United States
History
Literary collections
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow's first appearance. Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice--never before published as their original audiences saw them--W.T. Lhamon Jr. provides a reconstruction of their performance history and an analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England. Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 459 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-454) and index.
ISBN:0674274814
9780674274815

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