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	Dr. Horsehair - What is minstrel music?
		Minstrel music was established in the late 1830s with the development of the five-string banjo by Joel Sweeney of Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
		From this point, "minstrel mania" swept the nation as hundreds of minstrel troupes toured throughout the country.
		The banjo was the foundation of the minstrel show, and was always played with the back of the fingernail in the "stroke" or "banjo" style.
	www.drhorsehair.com /minstrel.html (557 words)

	Minstrel show
		The minstrel show as a complete evening's entertainment was invented when Dan Emmett[?] and the Virginia Minstrels[?] gave their first performance at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre[?] in 1843.
		Minstrels took on a much more decidedly abolitionist stance, and performers such as The Fighting Hutchinson Family[?] became popular advocates of abolition, women's rights, and the temperance movement.
		The inauthenticity of the minstrel music and the Irish and Scottish elements in it are explained by the fact that slaves were rarely allowed to play native African music and therefore had to adopt and adapt the folk songs of Europe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Minstrel_show.html (1849 words)

	Minstrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Initially, minstrels were simply servants at Court (the name means literally "little servant"), and entertained the lord and courtiers with chansons de geste or their local equivalent.
		A guild of royal minstrels was organized in England in 1469.
		Minstrels were required to either join the guild or to abstain from practicing their craft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minstrel (564 words)

	Minstrel shows
		Hateful as their content was, minstrel shows were the first form of musical theatre that was 100% American-born and bred.
		The minstrels, in their wide-eyed, large-lipped, ragged-costumed absurdity, rolled onto the stage in a thundercloud of energy which hardly ever dissipated.
		Though antebellum (minstrel) troupes were white, the form developed in a form of racial collaboration, illustrating the axiom that defines – and continues to define – American music as it developed over the next century and a half : African American innovations metamorphose into American popular culture when white performers learn to mimic fl ones.
	www.musicals101.com /minstrel.htm (1174 words)

	The Minstrel Players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Minstrel Players, are a local community theatre group.
		Who are committed to bringing affordable high-quality, world class, off-broadway, professional theatre to Northport, Long Island, New York.
		We are always auditioning new talent, to supplement our cast of regular minstrels.
	www.minstrelplayers.org (154 words)

	Minstrel Shows St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		The flface minstrel stands alongside the Yankee (independent, patriotic, and honest) and the backwoodsman (such as the uneducated and robust Davy Crockett) as early expressions of American identity, in defiance of European aristocracy.
		Significantly, the minstrel show was the first form of American commercial entertainment to draw on fl culture, although scholars admit that it is difficult to sort out this complex history of racial exchange.
		The minstrel show featured a stock low comedy character, the grotesque fl woman or the "funny ole gal." In contrast to male performers' creation of the "plantation yellow girl" (an attractive, well-dressed mulatto), female impersonators made the "funny ole gal" decidedly unattractive with mismatched clothes and a shrill voice.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100810 (726 words)

	Black and White Minstrel Show
		Minstrel theatrical entertainment originated and developed in the U.S. in the first half of the 19th century, and consisting of songs, dances, and comic repartee typically performed by white actors made up as fls.
		The minstrel show probably evolved from two types of entertainment popular in America before 1830: the impersonation of fls given by white actors between acts of plays or during circuses; and the performances of fl musicians who sang, with banjo accompaniment, in city streets.
		The minstrel show was the leading vehicle for popular music in the U.S. in the 19th century.
	www.sterlingtimes.org /memorable_images29.htm (751 words)

	Minstrel Show Collection, Scope and Contents
		Minstrel shows featured white Americans appearing in flface in a three-part show, performing what were billed as "genuine" Negro songs and dances.
		The earliest minstrel shows appeared in the early 1840s and were very popular until they were eclipsed by vaudeville in the 1890s.
		Many minstrel show performers, particularly the more successful ones, performed with more than one ensemble during their career, sometimes lending their names to the group if they owned all or part of it.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/minstrel.scope.html (1378 words)

	Minstrels and Jongleurs
		The minstrel was one of the most picturesque figures of medieval life.
		The trouvères and troubadours successively took up the lyre, the former to the north of the Loire, and the latter under the softer skies of the south, where the Langue d'Oc, a tongue resembling Italian rather than French, was spoken.
		Making Paris their headquarters, those of the north formed themselves into a corporation, acquired exclusive privileges, received permission to style their chief Roi, and became so opulent that two members of the fraternity alone could afford to build a church and a hospital in the street they inhabited.
	www.theatrehistory.com /medieval/minstrels001.html (704 words)

	The Minstrel Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		By the 1840s, the minstrel show had become one of the central events in the culture of the Democratic party.
		Later, in the twentieth century, sveral of the most famous minstrels were actually balck me who wore makeup--the most famous being Bert Williamss, who performed in flface into the 1920s.
		Minstrel shows continued to be popular well into the 1950s, and highschools, fraternities and local theater groups would often perform minstrel shows in flface.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html (475 words)

	THE MINSTREL SHOW’S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Early fl minstrel troupes such as Mahara’s Minstrels and the Rabbit Foot Minstrels corked their faces as custom demanded and performed in a self—mocking manner that degraded their race.
		However, this was the beginning of their entry into professional show business and fls continued to call themselves minstrels up to the start of World War I. James Bland (1854—1911), a fl composer, was the only notable minstrel song writer of the late nineteenth century.
		Early hillbilly music is filled with many examples of early minstrel songs and even the five—string banjo remained popular in the white rural South long after its demise in the fl community.
	www.jsfmusic.com /Uncle_Tom/Tom_Article6.html (1044 words)

	The Camelot Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As a defensive mechanism, groups will seek out Minstrels in hopes of having this ability to outrun the enemy and to travel to their destinations much quicker than most.
		Minstrels have many offensive and defensive abilities, though they rely heavily on their songs to stay alive.
		Minstrels derive from the rogue classes of Albion.
	www.camelotherald.com /article.php?id=25 (271 words)

	The Black and White Minstrel Show
		The Black And White Minstrel Show harked back to a specific period and location--the Deep South where coy White women could be seen being wooed by docile, smiling fl slaves.
		Many felt that a large part of "minstrel humour" was based on caricaturing fl people and depicting them as being both stupid and credulous.
		The Black And White Minstrel Show therefore, is important in the context of British television because it outlines how racist representations became part of public debate and how performance was linked to social context.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/blackandwhim/blackandwhim.htm (643 words)

	Minstrel E-Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Minstrel shall support state-of-the-art electronic commerce as an initial design concept since not all content available via channels, e.g.
		Minstrel shall have a flexible payment interface that allows multiple payment profiles and payment protocols to co-exist.
		In its initial implementation Minstrel shall use micropayment for a pay-per-view strategy as a prototype testbed (without constraining other types).
	www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at /Staff/pooh/Minstrel/E-Commerce (309 words)

	Folk Project Minstrel Coffeehouse
		The Minstrel Coffeehouse is a coffeehouse/concert series run by the Folk Project, a non-profit folk music and arts organization.
		After nearly 6 years at our current location of the Morris County Cultural Center, the Minstrel Coffeehouse will be moving to a new home at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown.
		This is an opportunity for all acoustic players and singers to sign up for a 15-minute performance, and for the audience to catch a wide variety of different folk performers, including some who may appear at the Minstrel at a later date with their own show.
	www.folkproject.org /fp_minstrel.html (1506 words)

	The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ > Article
		The Minstrel will be the class of choice for players who want to aid their friends, inspiring them to keep going through the darkest of times.
		With a vast repertoire of tales both fair and foul, a Minstrel restores the morale of her fellows, as well as causing enemies to despair.
		Soothing Song: Decreases the Minstrel's threat in the eyes of her enemy target and all adjacent enemies.
	lotro.turbine.com /article/65 (417 words)

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