Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture /

Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.

Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these...

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Other Authors: Lhamon, W. T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Rice, Tom, > 1808-1860.
African Americans > Literary collections.
Social classes > Literary collections.
Popular literature > United States.
American literature > 19th century.
Blackface entertainers > History.
African Americans in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Minstrel shows > History.
Black people in literature.
Race in literature.

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Call Number: PS509.N4 J86 2003
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