Behind the burnt cork mask: early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture

List of musical examples

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence

the playbills

Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories

Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera

Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces

Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories

Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories

Conclusion

Appendixes

Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60

Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60

Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters

Notes

Works cited

Index.

List of musical examples

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence

the playbills

Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories

Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera

Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces

Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories

Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories

Conclusion

Appendixes

Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60

Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60

Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters

Notes

Works cited

Index.