Find, share and discuss at least one contemporary example that can shed light on the lingering aspects of minstrelsy (what W.T. Lhamon calls the “cycles of minstrel transgression”).
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- Lhamon Jr., W.T. “Ebery Time I Wheel About I Jump Jim Crow: Cycles of Minstrel Transgression from Cool White to Vanilla Ice.” Inside the Minstrel Mask, edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. hatch, Brooks McNamara. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
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Chuchu Zhou4:25amOct 8 at 4:25am
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I learned more about minstrelsy from the lecture and PowerPoint. Black people are gifted with musical talent, and I don’t think a black face is a package or a prop. Astronomia from Tong lgy is a very popular song. It is a piece of nostalgic music for me as a history major, and I am not from “The Coffins”.
The soundtrack for the Black Casket Professionals team is You Know I’ll Go Get. Generally speaking, the death of a friend or relative is a sad event and the funeral service is heavy. But in Ghana in western Africa, it is a joyful funeral custom, dancing funeral, they believe that death is not a sad thing, but a new beginning of life, symbolizing new life. So their funeral ceremony is more lively. “Black people carrying coffins”, the funeral ceremony into a very cheerful and festive picture, with a dynamic electric sound, the scene is very magical.
This song brings pleasure and relaxation to many people, and not because it is performed by a black man. I think the work that makes people happy is the same for anyone who performs it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBBRuVDOo4&ab_channel=Vicetone (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4USav6UA134&ab_channel=HaxHanson (Links to an external site.)
Edited by Chuchu Zhou on Oct 8 at 4:54am
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