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Titre
THE LAST DARKY : BERT WILLIAMS, BLACK-ON-MINSTRELSY AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Date de parution
01/01/2006
Nbre/N° de page
272
Cote
OUVMUS CHU
Commentaire
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williams’s blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations of the moment. It was an appropriation and exploration of the contradictory and potentially liberating power of racial stereotypes. Perfoms with George Walker,husband of Ada Overton Walker ("The Queen of the Cakewalk")
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MusiqueJazzdanse jazz
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Langue
Anglais