Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne
Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne

Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance,...
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Author: Katrina Dyonne Thompson
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Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne

Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

CHF 61.62
Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne

Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

CHF 61.62
Author: Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved.

As Thompson shows, however, blacks' backstage use of musical performance often served quite a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that built community and even aided rebellion.

Thompson shows how these traditions evolved into nineteenth-century minstrelsy and, ultimately, raises the question of whether today's mass media performances and depictions of African Americans are so very far removed from their troublesome roots.



Author: Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 01/15/2014
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.11w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780252079832


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2014 pg. 149

About the Author

Katrina Dyonne Thompson is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at St. Louis University.




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