Download or read book Singing the Master written by Roger D. Abrahams and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial and radical interpretation of the most celebrated event on the Southern plantation: the corn-shucking ceremony. Relying on written accounts and oral histories of former slaves, Abrahams reconstructs this event and shows how the interaction of whites and blacks was adapted and imitated by whites in minstrel and vaudeville shows.