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Laughing mad : the black comic persona in post-soul America /
Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians performed (primarily) for black audiences and white comedians performed for whites. Yet during the past forty-five years, black comics have become progressively more central to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians performed (primarily) for black audiences and white comedians performed for whites. Yet during the past forty-five years, black comics have become progressively more central to mainstream culture. In Laughing Mad, Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how these integration processes have empowered black comedians to shape popular notions of the African American condition?for better and for worse. Historically, African American. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813542652 0813542650 9786611092559 6611092552 |