Disintegrating the Musical : Black Performance and American Musical Film /

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Publisher's description: From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to blac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, Arthur
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Musical films > United States > History and criticism.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Negers.
Filmmusicals.
Schwarze
Filmmusical
Musical films.
Films musicaux > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Noirs americains au cinema.
Schwarze.
USA.
Schwärze
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Wearing and tearing the mask : Blacks on and in blackface, live
  • "Fool acts" : cinematic conjunctions of white blackface and Black performance
  • Indefinite talk : Blacks in blackface, filmed
  • Black folk sold : Hollywood's Black-cast musicals
  • "Aping" Hollywood : deformation and mastery in The Duke is tops and Swing!
  • Jammin' the blues : the sight of jazz, 1944
  • Coda : bamboozled?

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