Demons of Disorder : Early Blackface Minstrels and their World
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama
ISBN-10
0521560748
ISBN-13
9780521560740
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 1997
Print length
260 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 2.10 cms
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In Demons of Disorder, the first book on the blackface tradition, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analysing the cultural expressions of blackface minstrels, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs.
Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth - all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analysing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still remembered songs such as 'Jim Crow', 'Zip Coon', and 'Dan Tucker'. Also examined is the character George Washington Dixon, the man most deserving of the title 'father of blackface minstrelsy' and surely one of celebrity's all-time heavyweight eccentrics - a bonafide 'demon of disorder'. The first book on the blackface tradition written by a leading musicologist, Demons of Disorder is an important achievement in music history and culture.
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