Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film

by Arthur Knight

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From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts, from sorrow songs to show tunes to bebop and beyond.

Arthur Knight focuses on American film's classic sound era, when Hollywood studios made...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822329638

ISBN13:9780822329633

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Arts, Music & Photography Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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