Moon, Krystyn R.,

Yellowface : creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / Krystyn R. Moon. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2005. - 220 p. : ill.

Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s -- The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s -- From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s -- The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

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

ML3477 / M818 Y 2005