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Yellowface [electronic resource] : creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon.

By: Moon, Krystyn R, 1974-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005Description: xi, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism | Chinese Americans -- Music -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780/.89/951073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s -- The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s -- From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s -- The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s -- The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s -- From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s -- The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.