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Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World by Dale Cockrell

Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World

Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama

Dale Cockrell

260 pages missing pub info (editions)

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Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth--all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating ...

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