Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, tro

In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States an

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

Shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by literary and cultural researches into oral, vernacular poetries in the late eighteenth-century.

 The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's raci