{"product_id":"the-blackface-minstrel-show-in-tim-brooks-9781476676760","title":"The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media: 20th Century Performances on Radio, Records, Film and Television","description":"\u003cp\u003e The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book traces the often overlooked history of the \"modern\" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476676763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476676760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Tim Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935547490559,"sku":"9781476676760","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_db80314c-5abf-493d-9555-2ec731144276.jpg?v=1681420433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-blackface-minstrel-show-in-tim-brooks-9781476676760","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}