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- Title
Lessons in Blackbody Minstrelsy.
- Authors
Kootin, Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe
- Abstract
The article discusses lessons in blackbody minstrelsy using the Old Plantation in Buffalo, New York as a case study to show the shift in the minstrelsy genre, a performance act that was a conflation of African American authenticity and white theatrical construction. History shows the permutations minstrelsy underwent in the late 1880s and 1990s to reproduce Southern African American plantation life. It explores the minstrel school's curriculum about actual slave life.
- Subjects
MINSTREL music; AFRICAN Americans; AUTHENTICITY (Philosophy); PLANTATION life; CURRICULUM; SLAVERY
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2013, Vol 57, Issue 2, p102
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/DRAM_a_00263