Yellowface : : Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s /

Yellowface : : Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s / / Krystyn R. Moon.

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Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed. Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they inform cultural perceptions differen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Moon, Krystyn R.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Imagining China: Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions
  • 2. Toward Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882
  • 3. Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s
  • 4. The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s
  • 5. From Aversion to Fascination: New Lyrics and Voices, 1880s-1920s
  • 6. The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. American Popular Songs with Chinese Subjects or Themes
  • Appendix B. Musicals, Revues, and Plays Produced in the United States with Chinese Songs, Scenes, or Characters
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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