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Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
Camille F. Forbes
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| #1603848 in Books | 2010-03-23 | 2010-03-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.94 x5.80l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Lively Readable Prose Resurrects a Forgotten Formidible Genius|By Arthur W. Campbell|Forbes' thoroughly documented story of the "greatest comedian on the American stage" delivers the most sensitive, nuanced, and contextualized biography I've ever read. Savoring the author's spirited syntax, the reader is transported to periods and places in American life largely ignored by con|From Publishers Weekly|Once billed as The Funniest Man on Earth, black comedian Bert Williams (1874–1922), in the midst of a current revival (e.g., Louis Chude-Sokei's The Last Darky and Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark), gets solidly cov
According to critics of his time, Bert Williams was the Greatest Comedian on the American Stage.” A black Bahamian immigrant, Williams made his start as a barker advertising the rough-and-tumble medicine shows” that dotted the Wild West at the end of the nineteenth century. Not long after joining a minstrel troupe and donning the burnt- cork makeup of blackface, he teamed up with African American George Walker in a sixteen-year partnership that would...
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