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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lateral sufficiency
  • Gumbo Cuff and the New York Desdemonas
  • Change the joke and slip the stereotype
  • The phases of Jim Crow's runaway stage
  • Songs: Coal black Rose
  • The original Jim Crow
  • Jim Crow still alive!
  • Dinah Crow
  • Jim Crow (London)
  • De original Jim Crow
  • Jim Crow (Boston)
  • All de women shout loo loo
  • Clare de kitchen
  • Gombo Chaff
  • Sich a gitting up stairs
  • Jim crack corn, or, The blue tail fly
  • Settin' on a rail, or, Raoon hunt
  • Plays: Oh! hush! or, The Virginny cupids!
  • Virginia mummy
  • Bone squash
  • Flight to America
  • The peacock and the crow
  • Jim Crow in his new place
  • The foreign prince
  • Yankee notes for English circulation
  • Otello
  • Street prose: The life of Jim Crow
  • A faithful account of the life of Jim Crow the American negro poet.