Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-

Yellowface creating the Chinese in Ame rican popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / [electronic resource] : Krystyn R. Moon. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006, c2005. - ACLS Humanities E-Book .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical produ ctions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigrat ion, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the Ameri can 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 vau devillians, 1900s-1920s.

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