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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture) - Couverture souple

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Lott, Eric

 
9780195096415: Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture)
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ISBN 10 : 019509641X ISBN 13 : 9780195096415
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1995

Synopsis

For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eric Lott is at University of Virginia.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019509641X
ISBN 13 
9780195096415
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
322
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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