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Canada and the Blackface Atlantic
Engelsk Paperback
Canada and the Blackface Atlantic
Engelsk Paperback

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Canada and the Blackface Atlantic traces the origins of theatre, dance, and concert singing in Canada and their connection to British and American song and dance traditions.

When theatrical acts first appeared in the late eighteenth century, chattel slavery had transformed into mass entertainment on minstrel stages across the Atlantic world. As railroads and theatres were built, local blackface troupes emerged alongside touring British and American acts. By the 1850s, blackface theatre could be found in remote Western outposts to stages in Central and Maritime Canada. This is one of the first books to connect the rise of Canadian blackface minstrelsy with the emergence of Black singers, and choral groups. It describes how Black performers who assumed minstrelsy’s mask remapped plantation slavery on Canadian stages.

It begins with the conflicts that shaped North America – the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Next, it connects these origins with eighteenth-century British immigration, which brought folk dances and masking traditions to North America. From there, it unmasks when and how “Jim Crow” became an Atlantic world sensation, which set the stage for blackface to expand. Finally, it considers how Black acts reimagined the parameters of their own freedom.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9781771126540
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
177112654X
Udg. Dato:
22 apr 2025
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Oplagsdato:
22 apr 2025
Forfatter(e):
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