Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-

Yellowface creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / [electronic resource] : Krystyn R. Moon. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005. - xi, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Chinese Americans--Music--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

ML3477 / .M66 2005eb

780/.89/951073