Learning Goal: I’m working on a music question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
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”).
Response (Due – Sunday, Oct. 10th by 11:59pm)
Review posts provided by one of your colleagues (no more than two responses allowed to a single student). Using their examples, speculate on how these contemporary artists use their work as a tool for advocacy or critique, and/or as an expression of their own cultural experiences.
RESOURCES
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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