Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain

by Michael Pickering

Book Overview

Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138265365
• ISBN13: 9781138265363
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"