Ring Shout, Wheel About

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The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

Autor: Katrina Dyonne Thompson

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: University of Illinois Press

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In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of...

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Autor

Katrina Dyonne Thompson

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2014

Stránok

256

EAN

9780252079832

ISBN

0252079833

Enbook ID

04869734

Vydavateľ

University of Illinois Press

Hmotnosť

420

Rozmery

229 x 156 x 17

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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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