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Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s
Krystyn R. Moon
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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List of Illustrations
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List of Music Clips
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[Dedication]
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Imagining China Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions
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[Intro]
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Nineteenth-Century American and European Writers
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Exceptions
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Early American Visions of China in Music
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Chapter 2 Toward Exclusion American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882
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[Intro]
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The Creation of John Chinaman
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Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee"
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Yellowface
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"Peculiar" Cultural Practices and Chinese Exclusion
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Chapter 3 Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s
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[Intro]
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Human Curiosities
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Chinese Immigrants and Music in Public and Private Spaces
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Chinese Theaters
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World Expositions
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Chapter 4 The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s
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[Intro]
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Transcriptions of Chinese Music
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Musical Representations
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Chapter 5 From Aversion to Fascination New Lyrics and Voices, 1880s-1920s
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[Intro]
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Yellowface and Its Codification
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China, Chinatowns, and Racialized Space
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The Arrival of China Doll and Ming Toy
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African Americans and New Racializations
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Chapter 6 The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s
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[Intro]
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Openings
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Types of Acts
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Conclusion
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Appendix A American Popular Songs with Chinese Subjects or Themes
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Appendix B Musicals, Revues, and Plays Produced in the United States with Chinese Songs, Scenes, or Characters
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Notes
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Imagining China
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Chapter 2 Toward Exclusion
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Chapter 3 Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers
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Chapter 4 The Sounds of Chinese Otherness
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Chapter 5 From Aversion to Fascination
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Chapter 6 The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians
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Conclusion
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Index
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About the Author
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: 2006
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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