Darkest America : Black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop / Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen.
Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actually still alive in the work of contemporary performers--from Dave Chappelle and Flavor Flav to Spike Lee.
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New York :
W. W. Norton,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition -- Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface -- Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified blackface -- I'se regusted how Stepin Fetchit, Amos, Andy, and company brought black minstrelsy to the twentieth-century screen -- Dyn-o-mite : How Cosby blew up the minstrel tradition, and J.J. put it back together -- That's why darkies were born -- How black popular singers kept minstrelsy's musical legacy alive -- Eazy duz it : how black minstrelsy bum-rushed hip-hop -- We just love to dramatize : how Zora Neale Hurston let her black minstrel roots show -- New millennium minstrel show : how Spike Lee and Tyler Perry brought the black minstrelsy debate to the twenty-first century -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a Investigates the origin and heyday of black minstrelsy, which in modern times is considered an embarrassment, and discusses whether or not the art form is actually still alive in the work of contemporary performers--from Dave Chappelle and Flavor Flav to Spike Lee. | ||
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