Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop Paperback - 2000
by W. T. Lhamon
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Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to handle, and overturning cherished ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Benito Cereno to The Jazz Singer, W.T. Lhamon Jr. sets out an original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating. He shows that early blackface, dating back to the 1830s, put forward an interpretation of blackness as that which endured a commonly felt scorn and often outwitted it. To follow the subsequent turns taken by the many forms of blackface is to pursue the way modern social shifts produce and disperse culture. Raising Cain follows these forms as they prolong and adapt folk performance and popular rites for industrial commerce, then project themselves into the rougher modes of postmodern life through such heirs of blackface as stand-up comedy, rock 'n' roll, talk TV, and hip hop.
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- Title Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop
- Author W. T. Lhamon
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press
- Date 2000-05-19
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780674001930 / 0674001931
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97028735
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.120
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