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Jump Jim Crow : Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
Jump Jim Crow Lost Plays Lyrics and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
Author: W. T., Jr. Lhamon
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 compl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674010628
ISBN-10: 0674010620
Publication Date: 7/31/2003
Pages: 478
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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