Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

Authors

Scott Gac

ISBN

978-0-252-07983-2

Price

$28.00

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Abstract

Performance and Race in American Slavery

Ring Shout, Wheel About presents a vivid reconceptualization of the origins of American entertainment. In five short chapters—Script, Casting, Backstage, Advertisement, and Same Script, Different Actors—, Thompson draws readers’ attention to....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.16.3.25

Recommended Citation

Gac, Scott (2014) "Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 16 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.16.3.25
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol16/iss3/23