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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Thompson, Katrina Dyonne
Titre(s) : Ring shout, wheel about [Texte imprimé] : the racial politics of music and dance in North American slavery / Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Publication : Urbana, ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2014
Description matérielle : x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Comprend : The script : "Africa was but a blank canvas for Europe's imagination" ; Casting
: "They sang their home-songs, and danced, each with his free foot slapping the deck"
; Onstage : "Dance you damned niggers, dance" ; Backstage : "White folks do as they
please, and the darkies do as they can" ; Advertisement : "Dancing through the Streets
and act lively" ; Same script, different actors : "Eb'ry time I weel about, I jump
Jim Crow" ; Epilogue : the show must go on ; -
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Text in English.
"In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization
and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from
the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson
explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans
to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality
of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations,
whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. As Thompson
shows, however, blacks' "backstage" use of musical performance often served quite
a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved
some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that
built community and even aided rebellion. Thompson shows how these traditions evolved
into nineteenth-century minstrelsy and, ultimately, raises the question of whether
today's mass media performances and depictions of African Americans are so very far
removed from their troublesome roots"
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Danse noire américaine -- Appréciation
Racisme dans la culture populaire
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.800 9730903 (23e éd.) = Groupes ethniques et nationaux - États-Unis - 1500-1899
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252038259 (hardback). - ISBN 0252038258 (hardback). - ISBN 9780252079832
(paperback). - ISBN 0252079833 (paperback). - ISBN 9780252096112 (e-book). - ISBN
0252096118 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437906207
Notice n° :
FRBNF43790620
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