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Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film
From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts, from sorrow songs to show tunes to bebop and beyond.Arthur Knight focuses...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
August 14th 2002
by Duke University Press Books
(first published 2002)
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Talks about the association of African Americans with music and song in film from back in the day to the present and mixes it up with the meaning of blackface. The book itself looks thick, but don't be frightened -- there are 100 pages of stuff-I-don't-have-to-read like notes, index, etc. Still, not one for the sleepy.
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