Transoceanic Blackface
Empire, Race, Performance
Seiten
2024
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4707-2 (ISBN)
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4707-2 (ISBN)
Tracing intertwined histories of racialized performance from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century across the US and the British Empire, this study maps the circulations of blackface repertoires in theatrical spectacles, popular songs, visual materials, comic operas, closet dramas, dance forms, and Shakespearean burlesques.
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
A material history of racialized performance throughout the Anglophone imperial world, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance revises prevailing understandings of blackface and minstrelsy as distinctively US American cultural practices. Tracing intertwined histories of racialized performance from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century across the United States and the British Empire, this study maps the circulations of blackface repertoires in theatrical spectacles, popular songs, visual materials, comic operas, closet dramas, dance forms, and Shakespearean burlesques.
Kellen Hoxworth focuses on overlooked performance histories, such as the early blackface minstrelsy of T. D. Rice’s “Jump Jim Crow” and the widely staged blackface burlesque versions of Othello, as traces of the racial and sexual anxieties of empire. From the nascent theatrical cultures of Australia, Britain, Canada, India, Jamaica, South Africa, and the United States, Transoceanic Blackface offers critical insight into the ways racialized performance animated the imperial “common sense” of white supremacy on a global scale.
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
A material history of racialized performance throughout the Anglophone imperial world, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance revises prevailing understandings of blackface and minstrelsy as distinctively US American cultural practices. Tracing intertwined histories of racialized performance from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century across the United States and the British Empire, this study maps the circulations of blackface repertoires in theatrical spectacles, popular songs, visual materials, comic operas, closet dramas, dance forms, and Shakespearean burlesques.
Kellen Hoxworth focuses on overlooked performance histories, such as the early blackface minstrelsy of T. D. Rice’s “Jump Jim Crow” and the widely staged blackface burlesque versions of Othello, as traces of the racial and sexual anxieties of empire. From the nascent theatrical cultures of Australia, Britain, Canada, India, Jamaica, South Africa, and the United States, Transoceanic Blackface offers critical insight into the ways racialized performance animated the imperial “common sense” of white supremacy on a global scale.
Kellen Hoxworth is an assistant professor of theater studies at the University at Buffalo.
List of Figures
Author's Note
Introduction: Furnishing the Empire
Chapter 1: Eddies in the Anglophone Imperial Stream
Chapter 2: Jim Crow Puts a Girdle Round About the Earth
Chapter 3: Ensemble Blackface Minstrelsy Belts the World
Chapter 4: Othello Travestied
Chapter 5: The Racial Make-Up of Empire
Epilogue: Blackface Backwash
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Performance Works |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 b&w halftones |
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4707-6 / 0810147076 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4707-2 / 9780810147072 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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