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Adam of the road
The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
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The Creolization of American Culture
This study examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. Christopher J. Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The \"Africanization\" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical \"creole synthesis,\" a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music.
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Minstrels and minstrelsy in late medieval England
A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities.
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Minstrels from Anatolia to Europe and Anonymous Works within the Context of Intertextuality / Metinlerarasılık Bağlamında Anadolu’dan Avrupa’ya Âşıklar ve Anonim Eserler
In this study, we aim to reveal the characteristics of the minstrel tradition, which has been going on in Anatolia for centuries and extending to the European continent, within the context of translation studies and intertextuality. The minstrels, who have an important role in shaping the culture in the lands they belong to, are the representatives of the region and the people they live in, and their role as a quoter makes them an element of the transformation/cycle. The minstrels, who are the mediators of Anatolian civilizations and rich works blended with the migrations they received from both the east and the west for centuries, are almost central in the context of intercultural interaction, as well as many ideas and art concepts produced and developed during this time, and the richness of cultural transformation is the focus of the research. In this study, in which I used document/work analysis within the framework of the qualitative research method, the different identities and works of minstrels in Anatolia and Europe adopted the context of translation studies and selected sample texts comparatively within the framework of intertextuality under the title of transtextuality, where Gerard Genette defines all kinds of relationships among texts. We tried to interpret it in the context of translation studies by taking it on the basis of these five concepts (intertextuality, hypertextuality, paratextuality, architextuality, metatextuality).
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Rickety Stitch and the gelatinous Goo
\"Meet Rickety Stitch ... a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale about the Road to Epoli and the land of Eem. His sidekick and sole friend is Goo, a squishy blob of jelly that Rickety alone can understand. Together they set out in search of Rickety's past, with abundant humor and adventure galore.\"--Inside jacket flap of Book 1.
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Ventriloquism's Faulty Mechanics: Nina Conti and the Antagonism of Personhood
Ventriloquism is marked by an antagonistic intimacy between the ventriloquist and dummy, an antagonism that is rooted in the mechanics of the form. British ventriloquist Nina Conti brings the inherent violence of the ventriloquial conceit to bear on scenes we typically do not think of as contests for naturalized animacy: therapy and pregnancy.
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Lionclaw, a tale of Rowan Hood
Young Lionel, minstrel in the outlaw band of Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin, tries to find his courage when she is abducted from Sherwood Forest.
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Step Right Up: The Many Minstrel Shows of Tyehimba Jess’s Olio
With its contrapuntal verse, reinvented forms, and dizzying formal constraints, Tyehimba Jess’s Pulitzer-prize-winning Olio is a difficult text to appreciate, not the least because it does not conform to contemporary expectations of the American “lyric.” The book’s form and content restage a carnival or minstrel show—the sort of mediated performance of blackness that the “first-generation-freed” artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, who serve as the subject matter and cast of Olio , used or misused for their bodily and cultural survival. Their artistry has survived—these Black performances, though stolen and appropriated, have become the backbone of what we now see as US culture. Olio is interested in these Black performers’ artistry as artistry, in their masks as mask, paying homage to Black genius without separating it from history. But Olio goes one step further, casting the whole literary establishment, and the Pulitzer Prize itself, as another stage of white appropriation—another minstrel show. Having taken the spotlight, Jess steals these Black stories back into memory and acclaim through virtuosic style and formal invention.
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Adam of the road
The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
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Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/
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