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Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy (Paperback)

~ (Editor), James V. Hatch (Editor), Brooks McNamara (Editor), Mel Watkins (Contributor) "The four Virginia Minstrels sat on the stage in a semicircle, partly turned to the audience, partly to each other to ensure rhythmic coordination..." (more)
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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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A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.

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Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: Wesleyan; 1st edition (October 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0819563005
ISBN-13: 978-0819563002
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
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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
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