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Demons of disorder : early blackface minstrels and their world / Dale Cockrell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: xx, 236 p. : ill ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521560748 (hbk.)
  • 0521568285 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Content advice: This work contains material that readers may find offensive. Images of performers in blackface.Summary: Based in part on the examination of court records in New York and Boston, the author looks at antecedents of minstrelsy in folk customs and working class expressions of misrule.
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Books Books VWML Dommett Bequest MG 20.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only 20608

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-227) and index.

This work contains material that readers may find offensive. Images of performers in blackface.

Based in part on the examination of court records in New York and Boston, the author looks at antecedents of minstrelsy in folk customs and working class expressions of misrule.

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