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Yellowface : Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813535067
  • 9780813541228
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780/.89/951073 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3477
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining China: Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions -- 2. Toward Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882 -- 3. Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s -- 4. The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s -- 5. From Aversion to Fascination: New Lyrics and Voices, 1880s-1920s -- 6. The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. American Popular Songs with Chinese Subjects or Themes -- Appendix B. Musicals, Revues, and Plays Produced in the United States with Chinese Songs, Scenes, or Characters -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed. Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they inform cultural perceptions differently from literary or visual art forms, which tend to be more tangible and stable. In Yellowface, Krystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time, Chinese and Chinese American musicians and performers appeared in a variety of venues, including museums, community theaters, and world's fairs, where they displayed their cultural heritage and contested anti-Chinese attitudes. A smaller number crossed over into vaudeville and performed non-Chinese materials. Moon shows how these performers carefully navigated between racist attitudes and their own artistic desires. While many scholars have studied both African American music and blackface minstrelsy, little attention has been given to Chinese and Chinese American music. This book provides a rare look at the way that immigrants actively participated in the creation, circulation, and, at times, subversion of Chinese stereotypes through their musical and performance work.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining China: Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions -- 2. Toward Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882 -- 3. Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s -- 4. The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s -- 5. From Aversion to Fascination: New Lyrics and Voices, 1880s-1920s -- 6. The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. American Popular Songs with Chinese Subjects or Themes -- Appendix B. Musicals, Revues, and Plays Produced in the United States with Chinese Songs, Scenes, or Characters -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

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Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed. Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they inform cultural perceptions differently from literary or visual art forms, which tend to be more tangible and stable. In Yellowface, Krystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time, Chinese and Chinese American musicians and performers appeared in a variety of venues, including museums, community theaters, and world's fairs, where they displayed their cultural heritage and contested anti-Chinese attitudes. A smaller number crossed over into vaudeville and performed non-Chinese materials. Moon shows how these performers carefully navigated between racist attitudes and their own artistic desires. While many scholars have studied both African American music and blackface minstrelsy, little attention has been given to Chinese and Chinese American music. This book provides a rare look at the way that immigrants actively participated in the creation, circulation, and, at times, subversion of Chinese stereotypes through their musical and performance work.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)