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Meaning of "minstrelsy"
minstrelsy (adjective) - Minstrelsy refers to the practice of blackface performance by white actors, musicians, and entertainers, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, portraying stereotypical and often offensive portrayals of African Americans
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- The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel.
- A group of minstrels.
- Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
- A collection of minstrel ballads.
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Minstrelsy lost popularity during the war.
Racism made black minstrelsy a difficult profession.
Barnum was a producer and promoter of blackface minstrelsy.
This new minstrelsy maintained an emphasis on refined music.
He saw his greatest success in blackface minstrelsy.
The term minstrelsy begins to be used to describe blackface entertainment.
Another important legacy of minstrelsy is its music.
These figures provide us with a veritable encyclopedia of minstrelsy.
The question of whether minstrelsy was white or black music was moot.
Directly related to this was the institution of minstrelsy.
Across Europe the publication of the Minstrelsy was an inspiration to literary nationalists.
My work aims for some kind of verbal minstrelsy.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border education site.
These three categories of ballad were clearly demarcated from each other in the Minstrelsy.
The Ira Aldridge Troupe was a minstrelsy group that caricatured Irish white men.
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All of the Tom shows appear to have incorporated elements of melodrama and blackface minstrelsy.
In content, early black minstrelsy differed little from its white counterpart.
It has been suggested that the song may have originally arisen out of American minstrelsy.
Minstrelsy remains a controversial issue ; some see it as a racist, while others see it as tradition.
He is not listed in Monarchs of Minstrelsy.
Minstrelsy became America 's first national popular culture.
Despite these pro-plantation attitudes, minstrelsy was banned in many Southern cities.
All " Tom shows " appear to have incorporated elements of melodrama and blackface minstrelsy.
You invoke minstrelsy for shock value, to what end?
The cakewalk was born and made way for America 's first popular culture, minstrelsy.
So we can say that blackface minstrelsy is as Canadian as “ O Canada . ”.
A popular form of theater during the 19th century was the minstrelsy show.
Blackface and minstrelsy serve as the theme of Spike Lee 's film Bamboozled 2000.
Germans, on the other hand, were portrayed favorably from their introduction to minstrelsy in the 1860s.
American popular music, from minstrelsy to MP3, Vol.
