This panel , which will take place next week at the CUNY Graduate Center, features many of the preeminent scholars on the history of the blackface minstrelsy. Highly recommended for students in Performance Studies, American Studies, and African American Studies, among other fields.
Blackface:
Examining the Minstrel Tradition
Camille Forbes,
author of Introducing Bert Williams:
Burnt Cork, Broadway and the Story of America's First Black Star
Eric Lott,
author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Greg Tate,
author of Fly Boy in the Buttermilk; Everything But the Burden:
What White People Are Taking From Black Culture
Mel Watkins,
author of Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry
Moderated by Gary Giddins,
author of Weather Bird; Satchmo and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams
Monday, April 7, 6:30-8:00pm
Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005 / ch@gc.cuny
i wish i could attend this event. i've always believed that the original concepts of black face still exist is current hip hop.
during the early 20 century, you'd hear white people and blacks (unfortunately) singing about n#gger this and n#gger that like the n-word was catchy.
the whole culture of black face reappears later in plays and movies and blaxplotation movies and hip hop.
this would be amazing to go to.
i hope you do a write up.
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filthyhot |
3/31/2008