{"product_id":"behind-the-burnt-cork-mask-early-blackface-minstrelsy-and-antebellum-american-popular-culture-music-in-american-life-0252066960","title":"Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0252066960\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mahar, William J.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Drawing on an unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music, William J. Mahar explores the racist practices of minstrel entertainers and considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century.Mahar investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between \"popular\" and \"elite\" constructions of culture. Locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar reassesses the historiography of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931136327968,"sku":"NEW0252066960","price":52.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/behind-the-burnt-cork-mask-early-blackface-minstrelsy-and-antebellum-american-popular-culture-music-in-american-life-0252066960","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}