Sign in or register
for additional privileges

Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Nicholas Sammond, Author
Race, page 10 of 25

 

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

Race, Page 230

Trader Mickey performs the fantasy of jazz music as "jungle music," one promulgated in productions such as King of Jazz (1930),which announces to its viewers that "jazz was born in the African jungle to the beating of voodoo drums." 

Portraying "Africa" as an exotic, chthonic landscape, Mickey and his captors play music with the human bones that litter the village. As in many other cartoons that featured jazz greats such as Cab Calloway or Louis Armstrong,  African American culture was often visually represented as an underworld seething with violence, sensuality, and death. 


Comment on this page
 

Discussion of "Race, Page 230"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

Previous page on path Race, page 10 of 25 Next page on path

Related:  Space, Page 190Introduction, Page 30Space, Page 177Conclusion, Page 304Space, Page 162Race, Page 225Race, Page 248Space, Page 143Race, Page 206Labor, Page 102Conclusion, Page 289Space, Page 187Labor, Page 128Race, Page 229Space, Page 170Space, Page 155Race, Page 224Race, Page 253Introduction, Page 6Performance, Page 84Space, Page 148Race, Page 261Space, Page 188Introduction, Page 21Space, Page 165Space, Page 182Space, Page 197Introduction, Page 2Space, Page 194Race, Page 258Space, Page 183Conclusion, Page 302Labor, Page 133Performance, Page 74Labor, Page 131Race, Page 231Race, Page 220Space, Page 189Space, Page 184Labor, Page 122Race, Page 232Performance, Page 82Labor, Page 123Performance, Page 42Space, Page 137Space, Page 178Race, Page 252Performance, Page 34Introduction, Page 29Labor, Page 132Labor, Page 98Race, Page 239Conclusion, Page 292Introduction, Page 23Labor, Page 88Labor, Page 101Space, Page 175Conclusion, Page 286Performance, Page 77Space, Page 171Labor, Page 109Performance, Page 54Space, Page 172Introduction, Page 14Conclusion, Page 300Labor, Page 112Performance, Page 72Race, Page 251Space, Page 163Race, Page 254Performance, Page 52Space, Page 193Race, Page 213Labor, Page 113Space, Page 195Space, Page 150Race, Page 219Space, Page 181Performance, Page 60Performance, Page 50Performance, Page 70Labor, Page 129Conclusion, Page 291Conclusion, Page 284Conclusion, Page 296Labor, Page 110Race, Page 221Race, Page 204Performance, Page 46Space, Page 138Space, Page 141Conclusion, Page 273Space, Page 146Race, Page 247Performance, Page 43Space, Page 152Performance, Page 35Labor, Page 119Space, Page 191Performance, Page 45Introduction, Page 4Race, Page 235Performance, Page 47Conclusion, Page 298Conclusion, Page 290Performance, Page 44Performance, Page 41Conclusion, Page 278Conclusion, Page 275Conclusion, Page 303Introduction, Page 1