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Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s

Krystyn R. Moon 2006 © Rutgers University Press
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  • 9780813535067 (hardcover)
  • 9780813535074 (paper)
  • 9780813535418 (ebook)
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  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Music Clips
  • [Dedication]
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Imagining China Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions
    • [Intro]
    • Nineteenth-Century American and European Writers
    • Exceptions
    • Early American Visions of China in Music
  • Chapter 2 Toward Exclusion American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882
    • [Intro]
    • The Creation of John Chinaman
    • Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee"
    • Yellowface
    • "Peculiar" Cultural Practices and Chinese Exclusion
  • Chapter 3 Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s
    • [Intro]
    • Human Curiosities
    • Chinese Immigrants and Music in Public and Private Spaces
    • Chinese Theaters
    • World Expositions
  • Chapter 4 The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s
    • [Intro]
    • Transcriptions of Chinese Music
    • Musical Representations
  • Chapter 5 From Aversion to Fascination New Lyrics and Voices, 1880s-1920s
    • [Intro]
    • Yellowface and Its Codification
    • China, Chinatowns, and Racialized Space
    • The Arrival of China Doll and Ming Toy
    • African Americans and New Racializations
  • Chapter 6 The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s
    • [Intro]
    • Openings
    • Types of Acts
  • 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
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1 Imagining China
    • Chapter 2 Toward Exclusion
    • Chapter 3 Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers
    • Chapter 4 The Sounds of Chinese Otherness
    • Chapter 5 From Aversion to Fascination
    • Chapter 6 The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians
    • Conclusion
  • Index
  • About the Author

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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ATJ 23.1 (Spring 2006): 217-220 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_theatre_journal/v023/23.1kaplan.html
TJ 57.3 (October 2005): 529-531 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v057/57.3steen.html
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