Description: Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB and virtually PERFECT condition book which is VERY RARE, hard to find and OUT OF PRINT and a remarkable collection of the Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the American Minstrel tradition written by W. T. LHAMON, Jr.--the book is an unstated First Edition published by Harvard University Press in 2003 and is a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy. This book is in SUPERB and virtually PERFECT condition and has a very slight ding on the lower right tip of the front cover, a very slight bit of non-sticky residue on the lower center of the back surface and just slight evidence of gentle browsing but NO other imperfections! The book is titled Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture and it was written by W. T. LHAMON, Jr.; it was published by Harvard University Press in 2003 and is an unstated 1st Edition copy.Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered―and forever transformed―American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow’s first appearance.Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice―never before published as their original audiences saw them―W. T. Lhamon, Jr., provides a reconstruction of their performance history, a warm embrace of their literary merit, and a provocative analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow’s lovable sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England.Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!Thanks for looking, and good luck if you're bidding! Also be sure to check out all of my other great books currently listed on ebay auctions--I can combine shipping for multiple purchases!
Price: 84.49 USD
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-05-15T05:45:04.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.25 USD
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Subject Area: Minstrel Shows
Publication Name: Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, & Street Prose of the First...
Item Length: 0.9in
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: 19th Century Culture
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.1in
Author: W.T. Lhamon Jr.
Features: Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 0.6in
Item Weight: 32.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 459 Pages
