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Pop music is mostly minstrelsy: Following "After The Ball," while black ragtime composers starved, white Tin Pan Alley hacks stuck "rag" in the titles of their novelty songs and sold millions.
Levinthal's title for this series reveals his interest in a tradition of blackface masquerade that, by the turn of the century, was largely a Jewish province (think of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer ). While Jewish minstrelsy operated on the premise that black people were inherently funny, it also reflected a complex identification of Jews with blacks--an identification between outsider groups explored by such contemporary scholars as Michael Rogin, in Blackface, White Noise , and Eric Lott, in Love and Theft .
At last: reverse minstrelsy.