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Singing the Master

其他書名	The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South
出版	Pantheon Books, 1992
主題	History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN	03945559109780394555911
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H7_WAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In the American South before the Civil War, a harvest celebration developed surrounding the shucking of the corn each autumn. This event brought together both slave and master, with the slaves encouraged to perform. Thanks to the reports of visitors and foreigners, the corn-shucking ceremony became a representative scene of plantation life. In Singing the Master, Roger Abrahams reconstructs the genesis of the celebration--and offers a controversial and radical interpretation of the occasion. Tracing the origins of the ceremony to the English custom of harvest home, Abrahams shows how the slaves, encouraged to express their African cultural heritage, transformed a chance for performance and self-expression into an opportunity for moral and social commentary--an occasion to mock and ridicule their masters. Abrahams also analyzes the corn-shucking ceremony's fascinating dual cultural legacy--how the African American performance style influenced white culture as it was adapted and imitated by whites in minstrel and vaudeville shows; and also how the bardic role of the performer, the subversive treatment of authority, and interplay with the audience are present in African American performance style today.