Bibliograph

Darkest America, Black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop, Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen

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Label

Darkest America, Black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop, Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Darkest America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

755704993

Responsibility statement

Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen

Sub title

Black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop

Table Of Contents

Racial pixies : how Dave Chappelle got bamboozled by the Black minstrel tradition -- Darkest America : how nineteenth-century Black minstrelsy made blackface black of cannibals and kings : how New Orleans' Zulu Krewe survived one hundred years of blackface -- Nobody : how Bert Williams dignified blackface -- I'se regusted how Stepin Fetchit, Amos, Andy, and company brought black minstrelsy to the twentieth-century screen -- Dyn-o-mite : How Cosby blew up the minstrel tradition, and J.J. put it back together -- That's why darkies were born -- How black popular singers kept minstrelsy's musical legacy alive -- Eazy duz it : how black minstrelsy bum-rushed hip-hop -- We just love to dramatize : how Zora Neale Hurston let her black minstrel roots show -- New millennium minstrel show : how Spike Lee and Tyler Perry brought the black minstrelsy debate to the twenty-first century -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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