American Studies 2200E Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 9: Ethiopian Serenaders, Alexander Saxton
28 Apr 2017
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Ale(cid:454)a(cid:374)de(cid:396) a(cid:454)to(cid:374), (cid:862)bla(cid:272)kfa(cid:272)e mi(cid:374)st(cid:396)els(cid:455) a(cid:374)d ja(cid:272)kso(cid:374)ia(cid:374) ideolog(cid:455),(cid:863) las: 114 42 [or aq 27:1 (march 1975): 3 28] Come from well to do families, they are failures to their family. End up going south, see slaves, join up with theatre companies. Start doing blackface based on their experiences in the south. Shun their upper middle-class beginnings and become self-made men. Take up the idea of being successful through entertainment for the masses. The irony is that they are not southerners. The idea of the plantation mythology in songs. Eric lott, excerpts from love and theft: blackface minstrelsy and the american working class. (cid:1005)84(cid:1004)"s: the (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s of (cid:271)la(cid:272)k fa(cid:272)ed (cid:373)i(cid:374)st(cid:396)els(cid:455)"s g(cid:396)eatest popula(cid:396)it(cid:455) Intense investment in the idea of cultural and political nationalism. The confirmed social divisions in american culture produced lively popular theatrical forms at the very moment when nationalist fervor was reaching its highest peak.
