Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s

Index

Index 211 Aarons, Alfred E., A China Doll, 124 acrobats, 64–66, 72, 81 activism, 164–166 Afong Moy, 59–62, 192n6, 193n14 African Americans: association with Chinese immigrants, 48, 52, 54, 94–95, 106–110; association with Irish immigrants , 55; attitudes toward Chinese immigrants, 133; music, 7, 87, 94–95, 106–110, 167–168, 209n46; perceptions of, 48, 52, 53 130–131; performers of Chinese impersonation, 114, 133–142, 202n7, 206nn105–106. See also blackface minstrelsy Ah Chung, James. See Archung, James Ahi, Bernice, 150 Ah Kone. SeeYut Gum “Ah Ling’s True Love” (Pigot), 52 “Ah Sin” (Williams), 52 Aladdin (Galland), 23; Buckley’s Serenaders ’s, 24; Comer and Steele’s, 23–24; Farley’s, 23 Alarcon, Leon. See Allah, Leon Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle), 82 Allah, Leon, 150 “All Coons Look Alike to Me” (Hogan), 133 Allen, Euphemia, “The Celebrated Chop Waltz,”100, 105. See also “Chopsticks” Allen, Maude, 127 Allen,Viola, 129 Alverson, Margaret Blake, 146, 160 American Folk-Lore Society, 75 Amiot, Joseph-Marie, 22, 89, 90, 91 antimodernists, 87–88 Ar Chung, James. See Archung, James Archung, James, 149–150, 157 Arlington Minstrels, 28 Armstrong, Louis, 167–168 “Artful Chinee, The” (Curtis), 42 assimilation, songs on, 36–37 Atteridge, Harold, “So Long, Sing Song,” 127 Auber, François-Esprit, The Bronze Horse, 24–25 audiences: Chinese American, 75, 76, 77–78; Irish American, 53 Backus, Charley, 43 Bainter, Fay, 126, 127–129, 152–153 Barnum, P. T., 28, 63, 74 Barrow, John, 20, 92, 100, 101 Ba-Ta-Clan. See Ching Chow Hi Belasco, David: Madame Butterfly, 96, 125; The Son-Daughter, 129–130 Benrimo, Henry: TheWillowTree, 127– 128; TheYellow Jacket, 96, 99, 115–116, 117–118 Berlioz, Hector, 63–64 Bernard, Cecil, “Ming Toy,” 127, 128 “Big Long John” (Schoolcraft), 51–52 blackface minstrelsy, 7, 24, 25, 26–27, 30–33, 38–39, 42, 43–47, 48, 87, 94– 95, 106, 130–133, 158–159, 209n46. See also African Americans: music blues, 106–107 Boote, F., “Heathen Chinee,” 40 Borodin, Alexander, “The Coteletten Polka,” 100, 105. See also “Chopsticks” Boubil, Alain, Miss Saigon, 163–164 Bowers, Robert Hood, “Chinese Lullaby ,” 125–126, 152–153 Braham, David: McSorley’s Inflation, 55; Mulligan’s SilverWedding, 53–54 Bridgman, Elijah C., 90 British embassies, to China, 13, 20–21 British productions, on China, 19–23, 120–121 Broadway Rastus (Handy), 106–107 Broken Idol (Van Alstyne and Williams), 122 Bronfin, Ben, “Chinese Moon,” 119 Bronze Horse,The (Auber), 24–25, 188n55 brothels, 67 Brown, Tom, 134–136, 137–139 Buckley’s Serenaders: Aladdin, 24; on Chinese music, 49 Bunker, Chang (Chun) and Eng (In), 27, 59; productions on, 27 burlesque, 24, 26–28 Burney, Charles, 14, 185n17 Butler, Caroline, 16 “California Bank Robbers” (Stone), 12–13 Carcross and Dixey’s Minstrels, 25 Carr, Benjamin and Joseph, 20–21 Castle, Irene andVernon, 157 Cathay Club Boys Band, 147 Catlin, George, 134, 140–142 “Celebrated Chop Waltz, The.” See “Chopsticks” cents (system of musical notation), 92–93 ChangYu-Shing (the “Chinese Giant”), 192n5; productions on, 28 Chan ShuYing, 147, 148, 150 Chan Suey Ting. See Chan ShuYing Chan Tock, 159 Chee Ling Qua. See Ching Ling Foo Chee Tai. See Chee Toy Chee Toy, 148, 149, 155, 157, 158 “Chen, My China Girl” (Slattery), 124 Cherry, Andrew, TheTravellers, 22–23 Cheval de bronze, Le. See Auber, FrançoisEsprit ; Bronze Horse,The China Doll,A (Smith and Aarons), 124 Chinatown: in NewYork City, 75–76, 78, 92, 93, 147–148; productions on, 95–96, 121; in San Francisco, 74–75, 78, 99, 146–147; songs on, 100, 102– 104, 113, 118–119, 121–122 “Chinatown, My Chinatown” ( Jerome and Schwartz), 100, 102–104, 122, 158, 167–168 “Chinee and the Coon, The.” See “Chinese and the Coon, The” Chinese: associated with Scottish music, 14, 90, 185nn16–17; attitudes toward music, 10–11, 12–19, 48–49, 57–58, 60–62, 63–64, 65–66, 90 (see also names of individual writers); early songs, 10–11, 19–29 (see also names of individual songs, productions, and songwriters); music, 5, 66–80, 88–94; musical ability , 17–19, 60–62, 154–155; performers , 7–8, 81–82, 143–146 (see also names of individual performers); opera, 71, 79 (see also opera, Chinese); Tin Pan Alley, 113, 119–121, 124; trade goods, 11, 59–60, 117 Chinese Americans: activism, 164–166; attitudes toward music, 48–49, 72, 93, 95; businesses, 67–68; music, 57–58, 66–80, 92, 93; musical ability...