Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop by Yuval Taylor, Jake Austen

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop

Yuval Taylor, Jake Austen

364 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective medium-paced
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Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider m...

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