Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Working in the "Kingdom of Culture": African Americans and American Popular Culture, 2890-1930 W. Fitzhugh Brundage 1
first coda Representations of Blackness in Nineteenth-Century Culture 43
Black Misrepresentation in Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music Illustration Stephanie Dunson 45
Creating an Image in Black: The Power of Abolition Pictures John Stauffer 66
second coda The Marketplace for Black Performance 95
The Real Thing David Krasner 99
Black Creativity and Black Stereotype: Rethinking Twentieth-Century Popular Music in America Susan Curtis 124
Crossing Boundaries: Black Musicians Who Defied Musical Genres Thomas Riis 147
Our Newcomers to the City: The Great Migration and the Making of Modern Mass Culture Davarian L. Baldwin 159
Buying and Selling with God: African American Religion, Race Records, and the Emerging Culture of Mass Consumption in the South John M. Giggie 190
third coda The Meanings and Uses of Popular Culture 213
The Secret Life of Oscar Micheaux: Race Films, Contested Histories, and Modern American Culture Robert Jackson 215
Hear Me Talking to You: The Blues and the Romance of Rebellion Grace Elizabeth Hale 239
At the Feet of Dessalines: Performing Haiti's Revolution during the New Negro Renaissance Clare Corbould 259
fourth coda Spectacle, Celebrity, and. the Black Body 289
The Black Eagle of Harlem: Shan White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, And Graham White 291
More than a Prizefight: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Transnational Politics of Boxing Lewis A. Erenberg 315
Contributors 357
Index 361