Darkest America Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop #pdf by Yuval Taylor

Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop


W W Norton Company | ISBN:0393070980 | File Type: PDF, 368 pages | File size: 25.Mb | Aug. 27th, 2012
General African American Studies: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy adopted in the mid nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form and embraced it as such And as the authors reveal black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popar black entertainment particarly in the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle Flavor Flav Spike Lee and Lil Wayne Darkest America explores the origins heyday and present day manifestations of this tradition exploding the myth that it was a form of entertainment that whites foisted on blacks and shining a sure to be controversial light on how these incendiary performances can be not only demeaning but also paradoxically liberating