Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film

by Arthur Knight

From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts, from sorrow songs to show tunes to bebop and beyond.

Arthur Knight focuses on American film's classic sound era, when Hollywood studios made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329638
• ISBN13: 9780822329633
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"