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- catalog abstract ""For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes served to usefully intensify these conflicts. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America."" "Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear - a dialectic of "love and theft"--The minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class." "Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Love & theft".
- catalog contributor b4274222.
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes served to usefully intensify these conflicts. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America."" "Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear - a dialectic of "love and theft"--The minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class." "Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Blackface and blackness: the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft: "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all: working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America: popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit": early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine Negro fun": racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution: Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes: racial melodrama and modes of production.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-303) and index.".
- catalog extent "314 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Love and theft.".
- catalog identifier "0195078322 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "019509641X (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Love and theft.".
- catalog isPartOf "Race and American culture".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Love and theft.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "791/.12/097309034 20".
- catalog subject "ML1711 .L67 1993".
- catalog subject "Minstrel shows United States History.".
- catalog subject "Minstrel shows United States.".
- catalog subject "Working class United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Blackface and blackness: the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft: "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all: working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America: popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit": early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine Negro fun": racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution: Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes: racial melodrama and modes of production.".
- catalog title "Love & theft".
- catalog title "Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".