My songs mean as much to my audience as yours do to your congregation
J. Hoberman, 18 July 1996
Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot
by Michael Rogin.
California, 320 pp., $24.95, May 1996,0 520 20407 7 Show More
by Michael Rogin.
California, 320 pp., $24.95, May 1996,
“... by longing for a lost, pre-industrial, feudal home.’ Call it Dixieland. Supplying the music (Stephen Foster’s remains the most well known) that might attend the birth of American nationalism, the minstrel show effectively affirmed a new national identity. ‘Minstrelsy accepted ethnic difference by insisting on racial division,’ Rogin writes. It ... ”