Beschreibung:
Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age offers a series of interlocking case studies which surveys racial and racist inscriptions of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.
Introduction: The Materiality and Circulation of Blackface in the Jazz Age; Chapter Two: Bert Williams and the Uprooted Bamboo Tree: "One Live as Two, Two Live as One"; Chapter Three: Self-Rising Minstrelsy: Aunt Jemima Mediated and Live; Chapter Four: A Vast and Limited Territory: The Amateur Minstrel Industry of Publishing Houses, Playwrights, and Acting Companies; Chapter Five: Minstrelsy, On the Time: Professional Blackface Performers Travel the Country; Chapter Six: Black Musicals on Broadway: "Back Up No'th with Me, Mammy"; Chapter Seven: And All That Followed: Performing Jazz Age Blackface in the Contemporary Moment