Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture by William J. Mahar

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

William J. Mahar

472 pages 1998

2 editions

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The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups         such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly         popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only         explores the...

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