The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon - Softcover

Ely, Melvin Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813920922 ISBN 13: 9780813920924

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2001

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Book by Ely Melvin Patrick

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Compelling... a stunningly objective look at the history of the program and how it affected, and was affected by, the culture at large....Remarkable. - Boston Globe; ""Amos 'n' Andy was an instant success, and went on to become both a national institution and a subject of racial controversy; Mr. Ely's sensitive and scholarly work shows us why."" - New Yorker; ""An engrossing, perhaps definitive, account of one of the most fascinating episodes in popular entertainment."" - Henry Louis Gates Jr.; ""Engaging....[Ely] does a brilliant job of sorting out what is in many ways a hellishly complex story....With exemplary scholarship and well-reasoned eloquence, he advances us a long way toward understanding, while also vividly revealing some unsettling aspects of our culture that shouldn't be forgotten."" - San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle; ""Painfully funny... ironic."" - Maureen Corrigan, ""Fresh Air,"" National Public Radio

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Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in 1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy in which a pair of white actors portrayed the adventures of two black men making a new life in the big city. Meanwhile, some angry African Americans demanded that Amos 'n' Andy be banned, even as others gathered in the barbershops and radio stores of Harlem to chuckle over the adventures of Amos, Andy, and the Kingfish. Melvin Patrick Ely unveils a fascinating tale of America's shifting color line, in which two professional directors of blackface minstrel shows manage to produce a serives so rich and complex that it wins admirers ranging from ultra-racists to outspoken racial egalitarians. Eventually, the pair stir further controversy when they bring their show to television. In a preface written especially for this new edition of his acclaimed classic, Ely shows how white and black responses to his Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy since 1991 tell a revealing story of their own about racial hopes and fears at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0813920922
• ISBN 13: 9780813920924
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360