Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture / by Mahar, William J. 1938-

Table of Contents: “…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.…”

Walt Whitman's selected journalism / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Table of Contents: “…Emerson's Lecture -- Untitled [March 8, 1842] -- Italian Opera in New Orleans -- The Hutchinson Family -- American Music, New and True! …”
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Music in the USA : a documentary companion /

Table of Contents: “…Lorenzo Da Ponte recruits an Italian opera company for New York -- 29. Music education for American girls -- 30. …”

Music in the USA : a documentary companion /

Table of Contents: “…Lorenzo Da Ponte recruits an Italian opera company for New York -- 29. Music education for American girls -- 30. …”
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