Kevin Byrne

Gebundenes Buch

Minstrel Traditions

Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age

Beschreibung

Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age offers a series of interlocking case studies which surveys racial and racist inscriptions of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.

Autor

Kevin Byrne is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television at the University of Arizona. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. His research interests include African American theatre history, theories of racial impersonation, and contemporary performance practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367367640
• ISBN-10: 0367367645
• Artikelnr.: 59413658

Rezensionen

Kevin Byrne's Minstrel Traditions is an exciting addition to the flourishing studies of African American Theatre during the early years of the twentieth century. The book examines several important musicals by black artists and performers, providing careful analysis and thorough research of musicals such as Under the Bamboo Tree. The book advances the field significantly.

David Krasner, Five Towns College

Meticulously researched and exquisitely written, Minstrel Traditions provides an illuminating and insightful examination of racial and cultural formations in the Jazz Age. Focusing on a range of compelling (and often riotous) case studies from across popular culture, Kevin Byrne brings to life the complex, fraught, and controversial performances that simultaneously entertained and defined the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

James F. Wilson, City University of New York