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title	:	Inside the Minstrel Mask : Readings in Nineteenth-century Blackface Minstrelsy
author	:	Bean, Annemarie.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0819563005
print isbn13	:	9780819563002
ebook isbn13	:	9780585370897
language	:	English
subject	Minstrel shows--United States--History--19th century.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PN3195.I58 1996eb
ddc	:	791/.12/097309034
subject	:	Minstrel shows--United States--History--19th century.

Page iii Inside the Minstrel Mask Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy Edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara Foreword by Mel Watkins

Page iv Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1996 by Wesleyan University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book Some of the material in this volume has been previously published: "Blackface and Blackness: The Minstrel Show in American Culture." From Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott. Copyright 1993 by Eric Lott. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. "The Performance of the Virginia Minstrels." From Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy by Hans Nathan. Copyright 1962 by the University of Oklahoma Press. "Black Musicians and Early Ethiopian Minstrelsy" by Eileen Southern. Originally published in the Black Perspective in Music, vol. 3, no. 1 (1975), ed. Eileen Southern. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Blackface Minstrelsy." From The Rise and Fall of the White Republic by Alexander Saxton. Copyright 1990 by Alexander Saxton. Reprinted by permission of Alexander Saxton and Verso. "Social Commentary in Late-Nineteenth-Century White Minstrelsy." From Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll. Copyright 1974 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission. "Early Minstrel Show Music, 18431852" by Robert B. Winans. Originally published in Musical Theatre in America: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the Musical Theatre in America, ed. Glenn Loney. Copyright 1984 by Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, Conn. "The Georgia Minstrels: The Early Years" by Eileen Southern. Originally published in the Inter-American Music Review, vol. 10, issue 2 (1989), ed. Robert Stevenson. "Ethiopian Skits and Sketches: Contents and Contexts of Blackface Minstrelsy, 18401890" by William J. Mahar. Originally published in Prospects, vol. 16 (1991). Copyright by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. "Juba and American Minstrelsy" by Marian Hannah Winter. Originally published in Dance Index 6 (1947), and subsequently reprinted by Arno Press.

Page v We dedicate this book to John Graziano

Page vii CONTENTS Foreword Mel Watkins ix Editors' Preface xi Introduction Blackface and Blackness: The Minstrel Show in American Culture Eric Lott 3 Early Minstrelsy The Performance of the Virginia Minstrels Hans Nathan 35 Black Musicians and Early Ethiopian Minstrelsy edited by Eileen Southern 43 The Origin of Negro Minstrelsy Colonel T. Allston Brown 44 Fun in Black Charles Day 46 Who Are Our National Poets? James K. Kennard, Jr. 50 Political Climate Blackface Minstrelsy Alexander Saxton 67 Social Commentary in Late-Nineteenth-Century White Minstrelsy Robert C. Toll 86 The Show Selection of Minstrelsy Memorabilia 111 Negro Minstrels Charles Townsend 121 The Hop of Fashion Charles T. White 126 Speech on Woman's Rights from"Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches, and Stump Speeches" 135

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