I have to wonder if the alt-right employs people full time to find things over which to create outrage.
I have to wonder if the alt-right employs people full time to find things over which to create outrage. This is a totally obscure piece of musicology, sociology, anthropology research about someone who can make a researched case that "Jingle Bells" came out of and was popularized through the minstrel show tradition in this country.
Yes, the minstrel show tradition that means blackface because black people couldn't perform in public and were caricatured all over the culture, just as much in the north as the south. It exploited stereotypes and racist tropes for entertainment and it made a lot of money. For white people.
The paper is pretty good and interesting, if you want to learn a bit about pre-civil war culture. Also, "Jingle Bells" is a north vs south thing historically because the person who is supposed to have written it was a northerner who ended up in Savannah. It's a thing, apparently.
Meanwhile, the researcher is being attacked and trolled.
"It seems that the work that I've been talking about on Jingle Bells ... has been absolutely misreported or reported very irresponsibly,"
Yes, obviously, but that's the point. You've brought up, yet again, how pervasive racism and bigotry are, and how unwilling to honestly address this some pretty scary people are. It was deliberately spun to rile up violent racists. They'd rather kill the truth than face the truth. And the people doing the spinning don't care who or what they hurt, because there are no consequences for them.
Here's the paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/story-i-must-tell-jingle-bells-in-the-minstrel-repertoire/D42C78950A58BDB88290954F73B195B2/core-reader
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jingle-bells-research-racist-backlash-1.4459442
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jingle-bells-research-racist-backlash-1.4459442
Yes, the minstrel show tradition that means blackface because black people couldn't perform in public and were caricatured all over the culture, just as much in the north as the south. It exploited stereotypes and racist tropes for entertainment and it made a lot of money. For white people.
The paper is pretty good and interesting, if you want to learn a bit about pre-civil war culture. Also, "Jingle Bells" is a north vs south thing historically because the person who is supposed to have written it was a northerner who ended up in Savannah. It's a thing, apparently.
Meanwhile, the researcher is being attacked and trolled.
"It seems that the work that I've been talking about on Jingle Bells ... has been absolutely misreported or reported very irresponsibly,"
Yes, obviously, but that's the point. You've brought up, yet again, how pervasive racism and bigotry are, and how unwilling to honestly address this some pretty scary people are. It was deliberately spun to rile up violent racists. They'd rather kill the truth than face the truth. And the people doing the spinning don't care who or what they hurt, because there are no consequences for them.
Here's the paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/story-i-must-tell-jingle-bells-in-the-minstrel-repertoire/D42C78950A58BDB88290954F73B195B2/core-reader
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jingle-bells-research-racist-backlash-1.4459442
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jingle-bells-research-racist-backlash-1.4459442
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