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	Minstrel Show - MSN Encarta
		Minstrel Show, theatrical entertainment originated and developed in the United States in the first half of the 19th century, and consisting of songs, dances, and comic repartee typically performed by white actors made up as fl people.
		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 America in the 19th century.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578073/Minstrel_Show.html (530 words)

	Minstrel show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The minstrel show began with brief burlesques and comic entr'actes in the early 1830s and emerged as a full-fledged form in the next decade.
		The rise of the minstrel show coincided with the growth of the abolitionist movement.
		Other significant differences were that the fl minstrels added religious themes to their shows while whites shied from them, and that the fl companies commonly ended the first act of the show with a military high-stepping, brass band burlesque, a practice adopted after Callender's Minstrels used it in 1875 or 1876.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minstrel_show (7603 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.
		Another group called the Christy Minstrels, headed by the actor Edwin P. Christy (1815–62), began appearing a few years later and originated many essential features of the minstrel show, including the seating of the entertainers in a semicircle on the stage, with a tambourine player (Mr.
		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)

	The Black and White Minstrel Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was a weekly light entertainment and variety show presenting traditional American 'Deep South' and Country songs, as well as show and music hall numbers, usually performed in flface, and with lavish costumes.
		The show was first broadcast on the BBC on June 14, 1958.
		While the show started off being broadcast in (genuine) fl-and-white, the show was one of the very first to be moved to colour by the BBC in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show (605 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Time Shift - Black and White Minstrel Show Revisited
		First broadcast in 1957, the Black and White Minstrel Show was intended as good clean family fun for a post-war Britain.
		The once top-rated show was effectively banned, but its legacy lives on as a strange infamy.
		That an innocently-intentioned show could, in just a generation, become such a screen pariah is one of the most extraordinary episodes in television history.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/minstrels.shtml (192 words)

	Minstrel shows
		Hateful as their content was, minstrel shows were the first form of musical theatre that was 100% American-born and bred.
		Minstrel shows developed in the 1840’s, peaked after the Civil War and remained popular into the early 1900s.
		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)

	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)

	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.
		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.
		Dressed in authentic costume of the old minstrels (without fl face), they perform minstrel and old-time string band music in bluegrass festivals, folk festivals, concerts, and corporate functions around the country, as well as the 1996 Olympics.
	www.drhorsehair.com /minstrel.html (557 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Minstrel Show \| PBS
		The father of the American minstrel show was Thomas Dartmouth Rice, popularly known as “Jim Crow.” He was an early Negro impersonator whose art created a vogue for flfaced minstrelsy.
		Initially these were all-male companies, including male alto and soprano singers; the larger fl minstrel shows included bands of multitalented instrumentalists to play marches for the troupe's parades in the daytime and perform string accompaniments for the evening shows.
		Minstrel shows had effectively disappeared by the early 20th century, but the effects of its racial stereotyping persisted in performance mediums well into mid-century.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/minstrel_show.html (562 words)

	The Minstrel Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By the 1840s, the minstrel show had become one of the central events in the culture of the Democratic party.
		The parody in minstrel shows was often savage.
		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)

	Hetzler's Fakebook - Minstrel Show Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the strangest is the minstrel show, a peculiarly American entertainment.
		Minstrel shows evolved from two types of entertainment popular in America before 1830.
		Minstrel shows exploited stereotypes, but helped fls enter show business after the Civil War.
	www.homestead.com /hetzler/NBMinstrel.html (319 words)

	Minstrel show Summary
		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.
		The minstrel show, a beguiling mixture of populism and racism, established the racial mixture and discrimination of flface as enduring aspects of twentieth century American culture.
	www.bookrags.com /Minstrel_show (8929 words)

	American Minstrel Show Collection
		The minstrel show evolved from two types of entertainment popular in America before 1830: the impersonation of fls 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 high point of the show was the concluding section, the "walk-around." This was an ensemble finale in which members of the troupe in various combinations participated in song, instrumental and choral music and dance.
		Sweatnam Minstrels / Sweatnam, Rice and Fagan (5)
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/tc050.html (921 words)

	The Minstrel Show- preface
		This paper deals with the complex form of the minstrel show that was a major attraction all through the northern part of the United States between 1840 and 1870.
		The centre of each minstrel show was the typical minstrel clown with his flened face, his wooly hair, his thick white lips, his ear-to-ear grin and the banjo on his knees.
		Furthermore it not only shows how popular theatre was a means for the American public to cope with their social problems, but also how a basically racist idea could become a national craze.
	www.jochenscheytt.de /minstrelshow/minpreface.html (312 words)

	Minstrelsy
		Minstrel shows began in the 1830s, with working class white men dressing up as plantation slaves.
		The minstrel show allowed them to play out fantasies that ordinary life forbid, but it also created a vast audience for African American culture.
		The bizarre minstrel show might be easier to understand in modern terms.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/magic/news/minstrel.html (331 words)

	Old Gold & Black > Minstrel show concept still lives on in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The minstrel show was an American theatrical form dating back to the early 19th century.
		The minstrel show has evolved through the years and covertly lurks behind a seemingly innocuous veil.
		The producers of the 19th century minstrel show were largely responsible for creating the original fl stereotype.
	ogb.wfu.edu /?id=3207_0_8_0_M (912 words)

	THE MINSTREL SHOW’S
		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.
		Although the minstrel show became extremely popular in Northern cities, its vitality and folk quality came from its humble Southern folk origins —— the plantations, the frontier and the rivers used for navigation and transportation.
		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)

	UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice: Minstrels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although vaudeville replaced minstrel shows as the most popular form of professional musical theater at the turn of the twentieth century, minstrelsy retained a presence in amateur theatricals until the 1950s.
		This photograph was taken at a minstrel show at the Elk's Lodge in Charlottesville, held on February 2 and 3, 1925.
		The first full-length flface minstrel show was performed at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York in February 1843.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/music/minstrels.html (973 words)

	The Plays of Max Sparber
		After the show, I realized that a good portion of Saturday's audience was friends and family of cast and crew members, and were not necessarily the target audience for the show.
		After the shows, we went out on the town with castmembers and friends, moving from cocktail lounge to cocktail lounge in a growing vortex of rambunctiousness.
		Minstrel Show; Or, The Lynching of William Brown
	maxsparber.blogspot.com (2237 words)

	American Variety Stage
		For much of its history, the minstrel show was presented by white performers in flface.
		Some spin-offs of the all-fl minstrel shows were fl vaudeville, tent, and medicine shows that reached fl audiences throughout America, especially those in the rural and urban South.
		Burlesque rapidly adapted the minstrel show's tripartite structure: part one was composed of songs and dances rendered by a female company, interspersed with low comedy from male comedians.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/vshtml/vsforms.html (1886 words)

	Minstrel shows - Part II
		Edwin P. Christy's Minstrels may not have invented minstrelsy, but they eventually perfected the three part format that became the standard for all minstrel shows.
		The Cohan and Harris' Minstrels (1909) was the last minstrel show to play Broadway, but minstrel traditions remained in use for decades.
		The medium allowed him to show pluck and daring – an élan visible in the harlequin but also traceable in the fl man's cultural approach to entertainment, sports and striking back, where possible, at white society and the subservient role it forced him to assume.
	www.musicals101.com /minstrelb.htm (1198 words)

	Minstrel Show - Vintage Audio Mp3s
		The "Black and White" Minstrel show was a popular form of entertainment which began in the United States during the 19th Century when slavery was still legal.
		The popularity of Minstrel show faded rapidly after the beginning of the 1900's and many records of this time already refer to these as 'Old Time' minstrels.
		The minstrel show music and songs were written by many of the best composers of the time, and despite the racism still contain many interesting subjects and musical themes.
	www.meloware.com /recinfo/minstrel.htm (544 words)

	:: MVRemix Reviews: Little Brother - The Minstrel Show ::
		While The Minstrel Show delivers the expected from LB, one could argue that is the album's downfall as well.
		There is no denying that 9th is an extremely talented producer with a keen ear for samples, but this critic personally believes he is capable of greatness and won't settle for the same old.
		While not better than The Listening, The Minstrel Show is a damn good album that stands tall as a perfect representation of what real Hip-Hop should be about.
	www.mvremix.com /urban/reviews/the_minstrel_show3.shtml (661 words)

	Little Brother :: The Minstrel Show :: Atlantic Records
		The very fact they and their farce on the minstrel show form would upset uptight conservatives and leftist liberals alike provides a reverse form of promotion used since the day 2 Live Crew was "Banned in the U.S.A." and Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity.
		While the cover of "The Minstrel Show" is probably not as provacative as K.M.D.'s proposed figure of Sambo being lynched, one certainly can't mistake the album's cover or opening skit as not being very much kin to "Bamboozled," where it was not white actors who put on flface to minstrel but fl actors themselves.
		Whether being silly or as serious as cancer, whether coming with jazzy swing or hard knock hip-hop, "The Minstrel Show" hits all the right notes and proves not to be a minstreling parody of hip-hop but rather as true an expression of it as you're likely to see in your lifetime.
	www.rapreviews.com /archive/2005_09_minstrelshow.html (1137 words)

	Amazon.com: The Minstrel Show: Music: Little Brother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Minstrel Show is truly one great piece of hip hip that will stand the test of time.
		They use minstrel shows as a metaphor for what they believe is happening today.
		And I must tell you that this minstrel show was pure happenstance for me, a blessing from a "big brother" of mine.
	www.amazon.com /Minstrel-Show-Little-Brother/dp/B000A9QKCS (2382 words)

	Minstrel Shows Theatre Performing Arts Arts
		Commentary accompanies pictures of original minstrel show programs, illustrations and paraphanalia.
		- The official site for the Spike Lee satire on a modern minstrel show includes essays and extensive resources on the history of the minstrel show and flface and its impact on American culture and race relations.
		Includes extensive information on minstrel shows, the stock characters originated in them such as Jim Crow, Zip Coon and their impact on American life.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theatre/Minstrel_Shows (278 words)

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