Michael Jackson and the blackface mask / Harriet J. Manning.

Author/Creator:

Manning, Harriet J.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series.
[Ashgate popular and folk music series]

Format/Description:

Book
viii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Music and race.
Blackface entertainers.
Minstrel music -- History and criticism.

Contents:

Conflict and contradiction : nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy
"Black or white" : from Jim Crow to Michael Jackson
The continuum of blackface minstrelsy
Ghosts : racial phantoms and the lost black self
Turnaround : love and theft
Just using it : Eminem, the mask and a fight for authenticity
The burden of ambiguity
This is it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409455103 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409455106 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409455110 (ebook)
1409455114 (ebook)
9781472402363 (epub)
1472402367 (epub)

OCLC:

822028676

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