The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media: 20th Century Performances on Radio, Records, Film and Television

by Tim Brooks

 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476676763
• ISBN13: 9781476676760
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher