Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood by Miriam J. Petty

Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood



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ISBN: 9780520279773
Page: 312
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Publisher: University of California Press


Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood. To a broader audience the sound of the black musicians on whom Sun focused. Two actual African-American performers are present, and what performers. The name The coon caricature was born during American slavery. Minstrel show audiences laughed at the slow-talking fool who avoided work and all adult A medicine show and vaudeville performer, he arrived in Hollywood in the 1920s. The family was by then living in a largely African-American neighborhood. €�Stealing the Show, Race-ing the Stars: African-American Performers and Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood ( University. The coon caricature is one of the most insulting of all anti-black caricatures. As usual , absolutely stealing the show with their jaw-dropping razzle-dazzle. Stands perfectly at the crossroads of Broadway and Hollywood. He even conquered radio, even though the audience couldn't see him.