As the blackface minstrel show evolved from its beginnings in the American Revolution to its peak during the late 1800s, its frenetic dances, low-brow humor, and lively music provided more than mere entertainment. Indeed, these imitations and parodies shaped society's perceptions of African Americans-and of women-as well as made their mark on national identity, policymaking decisions, and other entertainment forms such as vaudeville, burlesque, the revue, and, eventually, film, radio, and television. Gathered here are rare primary materials-including firsthand accounts of minstrel shows, minstrelsy guides, jokes, sketches, and sheet music-and the best of contemporary scholarship on minstrelsy.
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"This fine collection contains some of the oldest jokes in U.S. history and some of the freshest scholarship in American Studies. Inside the Minstrel Mask gathers primary sources, classic nineteenth-century accounts of blackface shows, influential modern accounts of the meaning of minstrelsy as a performance and craze, and exciting new work on race, gender and humor in one of the nation's most popular and enduring forms of entertainment." (David Roedigger, University of Minnesota )
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Annemarie Bean is an independent scholar living and raising her children in Vermont. She has taught in the theatre, American Studies and African American Studies Programs at Williams College and Wesleyan University. Along with Sandra L. Burton, Bean organized Stalwart Originality, an annual conference at Williams that celebrated African American performance. Additionally, Bean was a consulting historian for the New-York Historical Society's New York and the Civil War: Slavery and Society exhibition in 2006.
Bean's specialization areas are in performance studies and intercultural performance, with a particular concentration on performances of race and gender in American theatre and performance. She is the co-editor, along with James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara, of Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, published by Wesleyan University Press in 1996 and winner of the 1997 Errol Hill Award, given for outstanding scholarship in African American theatre studies by the American Society for Theatre Research. Professor Bean is also the editor of A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, published by Routledge in 1999. She is currently fine-tuning her manuscript, Transperformance: Almost Crossing America. Transperformance centers on American cross-dressed and cross-raced performances on stage and television in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Bean's specialization areas are in performance studies and intercultural performance, with a particular concentration on performances of race and gender in American theatre and performance. She is the co-editor, along with James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara, of Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, published by Wesleyan University Press in 1996 and winner of the 1997 Errol Hill Award, given for outstanding scholarship in African American theatre studies by the American Society for Theatre Research. Professor Bean is also the editor of A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, published by Routledge in 1999. She is currently fine-tuning her manuscript, Transperformance: Almost Crossing America. Transperformance centers on American cross-dressed and cross-raced performances on stage and television in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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I reccommend Inside the Minstrel Mask. A fascinating survey of the minstrel show, including some of the songs and skits that were popular.Also includes some astute analysis. Gary Winter Playwright
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The four Virginia Minstrels sat on the stage in a semicircle, partly turned to the audience, partly to each other to ensure rhythmic coordination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dat knocking, long tail blue, early minstrelsy, blackface clowning, blackface convention, minstrel show music, early minstrel show, white minstrelsy, negro minstrelsy, performance genealogies, blackface entertainment, blackface comedy, blackface minstrelsy, minstrel companies, minstrel stage, blackface performers, minstrel band, minstrel music, minstrel songs, blackface performance, concert company, colored gentleman, minstrel troupe, burnt cork, minstrel performers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Georgia Minstrels, Jim Crow, Miss Lucy, Dan Emmett, Zip Coon, United States, New Orleans, Virginia Minstrels, San Francisco, Dandy Jim, Courtesy of Brown University Library, Stephen Foster, Charles White, George Christy, Oxford University Press, Captain Slim, Tony Hart, Allston Brown, American Quarterly, Coal Black Rose, Grotesque Essence, Wood's Minstrels, Cool White, Dan Bryant New!
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The four Virginia Minstrels sat on the stage in a semicircle, partly turned to the audience, partly to each other to ensure rhythmic coordination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dat knocking, long tail blue, early minstrelsy, blackface clowning, blackface convention, minstrel show music, early minstrel show, white minstrelsy, negro minstrelsy, performance genealogies, blackface entertainment, blackface comedy, blackface minstrelsy, minstrel companies, minstrel stage, blackface performers, minstrel band, minstrel music, minstrel songs, blackface performance, concert company, colored gentleman, minstrel troupe, burnt cork, minstrel performers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Georgia Minstrels, Jim Crow, Miss Lucy, Dan Emmett, Zip Coon, United States, New Orleans, Virginia Minstrels, San Francisco, Dandy Jim, Courtesy of Brown University Library, Stephen Foster, Charles White, George Christy, Oxford University Press, Captain Slim, Tony Hart, Allston Brown, American Quarterly, Coal Black Rose, Grotesque Essence, Wood's Minstrels, Cool White, Dan Bryant New!
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