Six books in one lot. They are all about the 19th century minstrel movement. They are "Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class" by Eric Lott, "Burnt Cork and Tambourines: A Source Book for Negro Minstrelsy" William L. Slout, "The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Wlaker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy" Bob Carlin, "The Banjo Entertainers" Lowell Schreyer, "The Early Minstrel Banjo" by Joe Weidlich, and "Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World" by Dale Cockrell. The last book is the only hard cover.