Kniha Ring Shout, Wheel About Katrina Dyonne Thompson

Ring Shout, Wheel About

The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2014
Stránek
256
EAN
9780252079832
ISBN
0252079833
Enbook ID
04869734
Hmotnost
420
Rozměry
229 x 156 x 17

Kompletní popis

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. As Thompson shows, however, blacks' "backstage" use of musical performance often served quite a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that built community and even aided rebellion. Thompson shows how these traditions evolved into nineteenth-century minstrelsy and, ultimately, raises the question of whether today's mass media performances and depictions of African Americans are so very far removed from their troublesome roots.

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