Demons of disorder : early blackface minstrels and their world /
Dale Cockrell.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- xx, 236 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; no. 8 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-227) and index.
This work contains material that readers may find offensive. Images of performers in blackface. Based in part on the examination of court records in New York and Boston, the author looks at antecedents of minstrelsy in folk customs and working class expressions of misrule.