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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"minstrel"”.
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Paying the minstrel: a cultural study of B.L.MS Harley 913
To date no inclusive study of the contents of British Library MS Harley 913 has been undertaken, despite the prevalence of scholarly opinion attesting to the manuscript's importance. In the absence of a facsimile or edition of Harley 913 it may be difficult for others to "visualize" the manuscript …
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Pray for the lights to go out: the portrayal of Blacks in Kansas City published sheet music
… Special Collections and include lullabies, minstrel caricatures, and a series on deacons. The lyrics and musical demarcation are analyzed for the demonstrated perception in each piece. Analysis includes genre along with associations and connotations with the songs' intended audience and …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… specifically in the popular press and on minstrel sheet music covers, serve as a window into understanding native-born discourses on Irish Americans. Various elements of the Irish immigrant trope are analyzed, including massive immigration, crowding, disease, poverty, drunkenness, …
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Bending Family Friendly into Fear: Nostalgia, Minstrelsy and Horror in Bendy and the Ink Machine
… bending. Bending and the Ink Machine makes the minstrel origins of cartoons visible through the gameic gaze.</p>
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Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture
Blackface minstrelsy just ain’t what it used to be. This statement should not be understood as a call for the return of the minstrel show. Quite literally, minstrelsy and its central feature blackface manifest themselves in divergent ways from their nineteenth and twentieth century manifestations, …
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The idea of solitude: studies in a changing theme, from Pomfret to Wordsworth
… of serviceability in the world; Beattie's Minstrel who moves from isolation to the lessons of social experience; and Cowper's retreat which must yet generate useful employment. The dissertation turns briefly, for a comparison of differences in approach, to the works of Zimmerman and …
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The evolution of jazz in Britain c. 1880-1927: antecedents, processes and developments
… and musical antecedents of the genre, including minstrel shows and black musical theatre, within the context of musical life in Britain in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. The processes through which this evolution took place are considered with reference to the ways in which jazz …
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From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
… States mainstream media, rooted as it is in the minstrel show legacy. Black Arts Movement artists theorized an alternative vision of the arts which turned to African cultures, African American folk culture, and other African Diasporic cultures for aesthetic models, a turn that PASLA embraced.</p> …
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American women saxophonists from 1870-1930 : their careers and repertoire
… saxophonists' repertoire. Parlor, religious, and minstrel songs are examined, as are waltz, fox-trot, and ragtime pieces. Discussion of music of a more "classical" nature concludes this section. Two appendixes are included--the first, a complete alphabetical list of the names of early female …
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The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records
… this trope to sell its bluesmen using a minstrel caricature of the uneducated, violent, oppressed, oversexed black man. Matthew Johnson’s role as a white male label head selling black music also echoes blues history. Using Grace Hale’s term “rebel persona,” I analyze how Johnson fits into …
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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s
… of African American women that developed in minstrel shows and vaudeville stereotyped African American actresses. My thesis begins with minstrelsy and vaudeville because of its influence on creating negative stereotypical roles in films. The thesis then focuses on the film period of silent …
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Musicians Who Busk: Identity, Career, and Community in New Orleans Street Performance
Street musicians in New Orleans are one of type of contemporary performers or buskers who represent an occupational community located in the French Quarter. Though often marginalized or seen as deviant, these urban troubadours regard themselves as professional entertainers who adhere to ethical …
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Home grown : the black experience in the city of Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915
… the child-Negro social identity in their jokes, minstrel shows, and in their encounters with non-threatening Negroes.6. The beast-Negro image in Monroe was associated with crimes committed by blacks--Afro-American misbehavior. Negroes were discriminated against in being suspected of crimes. But …