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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 paperback 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. Drawing on an unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, ske...

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