Blacks in Blackface
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-8350-5 (ISBN)
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In Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows, Henry T. Sampson provides an unprecedented wealth of information on legitimate musical comedies, including show synopses, casts, songs, and production credits. Sampson also recounts the struggles of African American performers and producers to overcome the racial prejudice of white show owners, music publishers, theatre managers, and booking agents to achieve adequate financial compensation for their talents and managerial expertise. Black producers and artists competed with white managers who were producing all-Black shows and also with some white entertainers who were performing Black-developed music and dances, often in blackface.
The chapters in this volume include:
·An overview of African American musical shows from the end of the Civil War through the golden years of the 1920s and ’30s
·New and expanded biographical sketches of performers
·Detailed information about the first producers and owners of Black minstrel and musical comedy shows
·Origins and backgrounds of several famous Black theatres
·Profiles of African American entrepreneurs and businessmen who provided financial resources to build and own many of the Black theatres where these shows were performed
·A chronicle of booking agencies and organized Black theatrical circuits, music publishing houses, and phonograph recording businesses
·Critical commentary from African American newspapers and show business publications
·More than 500 hundred rare photographs
A comprehensive volume that covers all aspects of Black musical shows performed in theatres, nightclubs, circuses, and medicine shows, this edition of Blacks in Blackface can be used as a reference for serious scholars and researchers of Black show business in the United States before 1940. More than double the size of the previous edition, this useful resource will also appeal to the casual reader who is interested in learning more about early Black entertainment.
Henry T. Sampson is the author of several books on African-American culture, including Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films, Second Edition (1995), That’s Enough Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 (1998), and Swingin’ on the Ether Waves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Programming, 1925-1955 (2005), all published by Scarecrow Press.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Early Black Musical Shows: Historical Overview
Chapter Two: Pioneering Black Entrepreneurs in Show Business
Chapter Three: Pioneer Black Show Producers
Chapter Four: Famous Black Theatres
Chapter Five: Reviews of Vaudeville, Tabloid, Road Shows, Burlesque and Negro Orchestra and Comment, 1900-1940
Chapter Six: Cabaret and Night Club Reviews
Chapter Seven: Reviews of Negro Musical Comedy Shows 1910-1940
Chapter Eight: Black Musical Comedy Shows: Cast of Characters and Synopsis
Chapter Nine: Negro Performers in Carnival, Exposition, Medicine, Circus Annex and Minstrel Shows: 1910-1940
Chapter Ten: Blacks in Blackface
Appendix A: Partial List of Black Vaudeville, Road Shows, and Burlesque Acts Traveling over Major Theatrical Circuits 1910-1940
Appendix B: Theatre Owners Who Were Original Members of T.O.B.A. in 1920
Appendix C: Routings on the T. O. B. A. Circuit, October 1926
Appendix D: Partial List of Theatres Owned and Operated by Blacks, 1910-1930
Appendix E: Typical T. O. B. A. Show Contract of the Late 1920s
Appendix F: Partial List of Acts Playing the S.H. Dudley Circuit, November 1914
Appendix G: Alphabetical List of Negro Musical Comedies and Tab Shows1910-1940
Appendix H: Thirty Songs Written by Black Composers Published by Pace and Handy Music Co. Inc.
Appendix I: Partial List of Colored Fairs-1921
Appendix J: Partial List of U.S. Black Newspapers, 1900-1940
Index
About the Author
| Reihe/Serie | Blacks in Blackface |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 524 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 226 x 283 mm |
| Gewicht | 4849 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8108-8350-3 / 0810883503 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8108-8350-5 / 9780810883505 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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