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Yellowface : creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon.
Author
Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
JSTOR DDA
EBSCOhost International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
ACLS Humanities eBook
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
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Subject(s)
Popular music
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United States
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History and criticism
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Chinese Americans
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Music
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History and criticism
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Medium/Support
polychrome rdacc
illustration rdaill
Summary note
Annotation 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 differently from literary or visual art forms, which tend to be more tangible and stable. In Yellowface, Krystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time, Chinese and Chinese American musicians and performers appeared in a variety of venues, including museums, community theaters, and world's fairs, where they displayed their cultural heritage and contested anti-Chinese attitudes. A smaller number crossed overinto vaudeville and performed non-Chinese materials. Moon shows how these performers carefully navigated between racist attitudes and their own artistic desires. While many scholars have studied both African American music and blackface minstrelsy, little attention has been given to Chinese and Chinese American music. This book provides a rare look at the way that immigrants actively participated in the creation, circulation, and, at times, subversion of Chinese stereotypes through their musical and performance work.
Annotation Krystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version record.
Contents
Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions
Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882
Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s
The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s
From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s
The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s.
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ISBN
0813541220 ((electronic bk.))
9780813541228 ((electronic bk.))
0813535417
9780813535418
OCLC
191930387
Other standard number
0813535417
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Yellowface [electronic resource] : creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon.
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Yellowface : creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon.
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