Love & Theft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love & Theft write by Eric Lott. This book was released on 2013-07-10. Love & Theft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery. This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume. It features a new foreword by renowned critic Greil Marcus that discusses the book's influence on American cultural studies as well as its relationship to Bob Dylan's 2001 album of the same name, "Love & Theft." In addition, Lott has written a new afterword that extends the study's range to the twenty-first century.
Love and Theft
Love and Theft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love and Theft write by Eric Lott. This book was released on 1993. Love and Theft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine Negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class write by Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor. This book was released on 1993-10-28. Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery.
Black Mirror
Black Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Mirror write by Eric Lott. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Black Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Blackness is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, it invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while remaining “wholly” white. From sports to literature, film, and music to investigative journalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other racial mirroring.
Demons of Disorder
Demons of Disorder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demons of Disorder write by Dale Cockrell. This book was released on 1997-07-28. Demons of Disorder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.
