T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Steamboat, Black Kids, Tambourine
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Td 301- guest lecture by laura baggs: blackface minstrelsy continued - 2. 3b. Christy"s minstrels: standardized performance into three acts, 1. Fractured play (usually shakespeare) or dance performance. Shakespeare: super successful by this point in time. It will legitimate your art form bc he is treated as high art. White ppl dressing as enslaved men and women, using. Opens with stump speech and includes musical number featuring all dancers and musicians. These plays develop stock characters: jim crow: physical enactment, they blend a lot. Happy sambo (not the same as jim crow) Lazy, enjoys hanging out, not doing work. Idea that black men liked being taken care of by white masters, enjoyed the work, liked being enslaved. Older version, very religious, sober: zip coon. He will probably say the wrong words . Not smart, probably won"t understand the jokes: mammy. Enjoys taking care of white woman: pickaninny.
