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Michael Jackson and the blackface mask

Manning, Dr Harriet JBurns, Professor Lori(Series edited by)Hawkins, Professor Stan(Series edited by)
Part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series series
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Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience.

Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy?s gestures and tropes are embedded.

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Ashgate
1472402367 / 9781472402363
Ebook
31/08/2013
English
204 pages
156. x 234. mm