How did impromptu bands of sailors in blackface become a significant channel of 19th century US cultural diplomacy?
Tag: Jim Crow
Hodgson: Jim Crow’s Vagaries (1830s?)
In which we discovered such international gems as “Jim Crow’s Trip to France” & sundry others…
Lhamon: Raising Cain (2000)
Lhamon reconstructs the hidden history of public dance, musical fusion, Jim Crow, and racial identity (& transgression) in antebellum U.S. cities, then traces it forward into the 20th century:
Cockrell: Demons of Disorder (1997)
by Dale Cockrell … A riveting analysis of unconventional texts from the first two decades of minstrelsy.
Jim Crow (Rice, 1830)
If we can hold our immediate revulsion at the (now offensive) language, we’ll find some shocking critique and surprisingly liberal views in the lyrics…
The Hardtacks 