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Thomas D. Rice

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Thomas Dartmouth Rice (Manhattan, 20 maggio 1808Brooklyn, 19 settembre 1860) è stato un cabarettista statunitense.

Tra gli intrattenitori più noti del suo tempo, Rice viene considerato il "padre dei minstrel show", ovvero degli spettacoli in cui venivano derisi gli afroamericani.[1][2] La sua Jump Jim, prima canzone statunitense ad avere successo all'estero, darà il nome alle leggi omonime.

Biografia

Rice nacque a Manhattan nel 1808. Dopo aver lavorato come intagliatore apprendista, si dedicò al teatro itinerante a partire dalla dagli anni venti.[3] Divenne però una celebrità grazie ai suoi minstrel show, nel corso dei quali impersonava in blackface il personaggio di Jim Crow. A quest'ultimo è ispirata la canzone di Rice Jump Jim Crow (1828), che vantò di grande notorietà tanto negli USA quanto nel Regno Unito, diventando così il primo brano statunitense ad avere successo all'estero.[4][5] Durante il periodo in cui godette di maggiore successo, cioè quello compreso tra i primi anni trenta e la metà del decennio successivo, i suoi spettacoli facevano il tutto esaurito.[3] Alcuni di questi vennero anche tenuti a Londra, tra cui una versione in blackface dell'Otello di Shakespeare.[6] La fortuna di Rice contribuì alla diffusione dei minstrel show.[3] A partire dalla seconda metà degli anni quaranta, Rice fu costretto a interrompere la sua attività a causa di una paralisi.[3] Rice morì nel 1860, a 52 anni di età.[3] È sepolto nel cimitero di Green-Wood di New York.

Note

  1. ^ (EN) History of Minstrelsy: From "Jump Jim Crow" to "The Jazz Singer", su exhibits.lib.usf.edu. URL consultato il 29 aprile 2024 (archiviato dall'url originale il 28 giugno 2015).
  2. ^ (EN) Blackface Minstrelsy, su pitt.edu. URL consultato il 29 aprile 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e (EN) James Fisher, Historical Dictionary of American Theater Beginnings, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015.
  4. ^ (EN) Kris Manjapra, Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation, Penguin Books Limited, 2022.
  5. ^ Tutti i trucchi del razzismo, su ilmanifesto.it. URL consultato il 29 aprile 2024.
  6. ^ (EN) A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class, su nytimes.com. URL consultato il 29 aprile 2024.

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