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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the PlantationSouth


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“Impressive…A scrupulously researched work enlarging our understanding of an integral aspect of slave culture.”–-The Washington Post Book World What was it like to be a slave on a plantation of the antebellum South? How did the fiction of the happy slave and myth of the plantation “family” evolve? How did slaves create a performance style that unified them, while simultaneously entertaining and mocking the master? The answers to these questions may be found in the groundbreaking study of the corn-shucking ceremonies of the prewar South, where white masters played host to local slaves and watched their “guests” perform exuberant displays of singing and dancing. Drawing on the detailed written and oral histories of masters, slaves, and Northern commentators, distinguished folklorist Roger Abrahams peels through layers of racism and nostalgia surrounding this celebration to uncover its true significance in the lives and imagination of both blacks and whites – and in the evolution of an enduring African-American culture.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction ONE "Ain't You Gwine to the Shucking of the Corn?" TWO Orders within Order: Cavalier and Slave Culture on the Plantation THREE An American Version of Pastoral FOUR Festive Spirit in the Development of African American Style FIVE Signifying Leadership on the Plantation SIX Powerful Imitations Coda: Freedom Mighty Sweet Notes APPENDIX I: The Corn-Shucking Accounts APPENDIX II: Accounts from Interviews with Ex-Slaves Index

About the Author :
Roger D. Abrahams was the Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the author and editor of a large number of books, including Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices, African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World, African-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World, and Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780140179194
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the PlantationSouth
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0140179194
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 362 gr


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