Disintegrating the Musical

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Arthur Knight

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"African American influence on American music is legendary, but not until Arthur Knight's "Disintegrating the Musical" have African American contributions to the Hollywood musical been put in the spotlight. Finally, we have a first-rate book offering a new slant on everything from blackface and Paul Robeson to the film version of" Porgy and Bess.""--Rick Altman, University of Iowa

Résumé
The history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disintegrating the Musical

1. Wearing and Tearing the Mask: Blacks on and in Blackface, Live
2. “Fool Acts”: Cinematic Conjunctions of White Blackface and Black Performance
3. Indefinite Talks: Blacks in Blackface, Filmed
4. Black Folk Sold: Hollywood’s Black-Cast Musicals
5. “Aping” Hollywood: Deformation and Mastery in The Duke is Tops and Swing!
6. Jammin’ the Blues: The Sight of Jazz
   Coda: Bamboozled?
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index