Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Disintegrating the Musical 1
5. 1.
6. Chapter one. Wearing and Tearing the Mask: Blacks on and in Blackface, Live 29
7. Chapter two ‘‘Fool Acts’’: Cinematic Conjunctions of White Blackface and Black Performance 49
8. Chapter three Indefinite Talk: Blacks in Blackface, Filmed 92
9. 2.
10. Chapter four. Black Folk Sold: Hollywood’s Black-Cast Musicals 123
11. Chapter five. ‘‘Aping’’ Hollywood: Deformation and Mastery in The Duke is Tops and Swing! 169
12. Chapter six. Jammin’ the Blues: The Sight of Jazz, 1944 195
13. Coda Bamboozled? 231
14. Notes 249
15. Bibliography 301
16. Index 327