ACLS Humanities E-Book: Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s

Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s

Krystyn R. Moon

Year: 2006, c2005.

Publisher: Rutgers University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

List of Illustrations

List of Music Clips

[Dedication]

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Imagining China: Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions

[Intro]

Nineteenth-Century American and European Writers

Exceptions

Early American Visions of China in Music

Chapter 2: Toward Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882

[Intro]

The Creation of John Chinaman

Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee"

Yellowface

"Peculiar" Cultural Practices and Chinese Exclusion

Chapter 3: Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s

[Intro]

Human Curiosities

Chinese Immigrants and Music in Public and Private Spaces

Chinese Theaters

World Expositions

Chapter 4: The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s

[Intro]

Transcriptions of Chinese Music

Musical Representations

Chapter 5: From Aversion to Fascination: New Lyrics and Voices, 1880s-1920s

[Intro]

Yellowface and Its Codification

China, Chinatowns, and Racialized Space

The Arrival of China Doll and Ming Toy

African Americans and New Racializations

Chapter 6: The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s

[Intro]

Openings

Types of Acts

Conclusion

Appendix A: American Popular Songs with Chinese Subjects or Themes

Appendix B: Musicals, Revues, and Plays Produced in the United States with Chinese Songs, Scenes, or Characters

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1: Imagining China

Chapter 2: Toward Exclusion

Chapter 3: Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers

Chapter 4: The Sounds of Chinese Otherness

Chapter 5: From Aversion to Fascination

Chapter 6: The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians

Conclusion

Index

About the Author

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Title:

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

Author:

Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-

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Yellowface : creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon.
Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006, c2005.

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Subject Headings:

• Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism
• Chinese Americans -- Music -- History and criticism

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