Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Mock blacks; Metropolitan minstrelsy; Everyday Ethiopians; British masks; Racial mockery; Black clowns; Early ragtime; Blackface media; Minstrelsy's legacy; Select bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Michael Pickering is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University, UK.

Reviews

’... this is a comprehensive and penetrating study of an unjustly forgotten subject.’ H-Net Review ’This is a major study, providing a complex analysis of its subject, which will stimulate and engage the reader, whether or not they agree with every argument put forward. It deserves to be widely read.’ Folk Music Journal ’... deeply impressive in its willingness to confront uncomfortable topics with controlled ambivalence and thoughtful analysis.’ Media History ’... a scholarly effort, and those with a special interest will find much to enjoy here. Libraries should order it for their music department.’ The Delian ’Blackfaced Minstrelsy in Britain reverses the commonly-held belief that blackface minstrelsy was an exclusively North-American phenomenon and that Britain merely imitated its legacy to instead focus on the cultural significance of British minstrel shows. In this way, the author shifts attention away from the United States to highlight the historical development of blackface minstrelsy in Britain in the nineteenth and ealy twentieth centuries.’ Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World '... Pickering provides a fascinating and multifaceted overview of blackface minstrelsy in Britain... an enlightening and very readable history of minstrelsy in Britain.' Journal of Popular Music