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	BAMBOOZLED
		The father of the American minstrel show was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, who in the 1830s drew immense popularity with a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled fl slave named Jim Crow.
		Perhaps the first major fl minstrel success was Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels, who hailed themselves in their advertising as "The Only Simon Pure Negro Troupe in the World." In 1876, the fl group known as Callendar's Minstrels broke the mold, and became the first African-American minstrel band to perform without fl-face.
		Although the minstrel shows began to decline at the turn of the century, the tradition was continued in the newfangled entertainment forms of movies and radio.
	www.bamboozledmovie.com /minstrelshow/briefhistory.html (786 words)

	The Black and White Minstrel Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British television series that ran from 1958 until 1978.
		The show was first broadcast on the BBC on June 14, 1958.
		The show was attacked as racist, a "cultural obscenity", by some, from the early 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show (375 words)

	Minstrel show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an indigenous form of American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, usually performed by white people in flface.
		The term "minstrel" had previously been reserved for traveling white singing groups, but Emmett and company made it synonymous with flface performance, and by using it, signalled that they were reaching out to a new, middle-class audience.
		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 (7525 words)

	The Black and White Minstrel Show
		One hundred years after the "Nigger Minstrel" entertainment tradition had begun in London's music-halls, the convention was revived on television in the form of The Black And White Minstrel Show.
		At a time when the variety show was a popular television genre for the whole family, The Black And White Minstrel Show established itself as one of the world's greatest musical programmes on television.
		The fl men were, in fact, White artists "Blacked-up." The racist implications of the premise of the programme were yet to be widely acknowledged or publicly discussed.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/blackandwhim/blackandwhim.htm (643 words)

	The History of Jim Crow
		Whites openly resorted to violence and fraud to control the fl vote, shooting down fl voters "just like birds." This ruthless and bloody revolution devastated the fl vote in Mississippi, and fully 66 percent of the fls registered to vote in the state failed to cast ballots in the presidential election of 1880.
		Other scholars contend that the driving force behind legal segregation and disfranchisement were upper-class whites in the "fl belt" areas who wanted to weaken or prevent through disfranchisement the hold of lower-classes whites on the Democratic Party or their allegiance to newer political power bases, such as the Farmers' Alliance or the Populist Party.
		Blacks had suffered death at the hands of white vigilantes for all of their history in the nation, but nothing like the spectacle associated with public lynching had ever occurred before.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /history/creating2.htm (4463 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)

	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)

	AllRefer.com - minstrel show (Theater) - Encyclopedia
		In the first part of the minstrel show the company, in flface and gaudy costumes, paraded to chairs placed in a semicircle on the stage.
		The interlocutor then cracked jokes with the end men, and, for a finale, the company passed in review in the "walk around." This part of the minstrel show caricatured the fl man, representing him by grotesque stereotypes that were retained in the minds of white American audiences for many decades.
		The minstrel show was at its peak from 1850 to 1870 but passed with the coming of vaudeville, motion pictures, and radio.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/minstshw.html (327 words)

	THE Black and White Minstrel Show - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		THE Black and White Minstrel Show is returning to BBC screens for the first time in 25 years.
		An episode from the variety series in which white performers “fled up” to perform show tunes will be shown in full along with a documentary praising the series for popularising fl musical forms.
		Minstrel Night will be part of a BBC Four season which promises to “explode the myth” that television enjoyed a golden age in the Sixties and Seventies.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=970174 (668 words)

	THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW \| A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
		It was twenty-one years before the BBC decided that white men wearing fl greasepaint on their faces with broad white smiles was politically improper and therefore cancelled the series once and for all.
		The man behind The Black and White Minstrel Show was George Mitchell, born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1917, the grandson of a well-known choral director.
		At the height of its success the Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a (then) record 18 million viewers a week and established itself as one of the world's best known musical/variety shows on television.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /minstrel.htm (602 words)

	screenonline: Black and White Minstrel Show, The (1958-78)
		Looked at from a contemporary perspective, the show is laughable in its underlying racist pretence and its harking back to the old Deep South, and the weekly sight of pretty women serenaded by smiling, obedient fl slaves.
		While most viewers ignored the racist context of the show, there was a growing frustration with the representation of Black people on British television, particularly in an increasingly multicultural society.
		It is some measure of the show's success, as well as the insipid state of British broadcasting, that it remained on air until July 1978 and, in its departure, was more a victim of declining interest in variety programmes than any rejection of its prejudiced portrayals of Black people.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/535195 (297 words)

	ipedia.com: Blackface Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was often associated with the Negro minstrel show tradition of comedy and musical entertainment.
		Indeed, allusions to fl style are virtually standard for rock and roll and pop music, not only at its beginnings, but up to the present day.
		The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British musical variety show that featured flface performers, and remained on British television until 1978.
	www.ipedia.com /blackface.html (690 words)

	The New Minstrel Show: Black Vaudeville With Statistics-BlackAthlete Sports Network
		Advertisers now line up to have fl sports figures push their products, especially to the audience they covet, with near-liturgical zeal, 18- to-25-year-old white suburban males, many of whom are mesmerized by the idiomatic hip-hop jargon, the cock-of-the-walk swagger, the smooth-as-the-law-allows attire of their fl heroes.
		Black vaudeville would become a casualty of expanding educational opportunities that created an evolving fl middle class with deep concerns that minstrel-like characterizations were degrading and would only perpetuate the accepted attitude that the Negro was the slap-happy court jester for whites.
		White adults, whose knowledge of fl life is generally limited to what they see in pop culture, take burlesque at face value.
	www.blackathlete.com /Lifestyle/052504.shtml (1211 words)

	Minstrelsy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	George Chisholm: 1915-1997
		His appetite was suitably whetted, and in 1961 he joined the cast of the highly popular Black and White Minstrel Show, to the chagrin of some jazz critics of the time, who felt he was wasting his talents on comedy routines.
		Chisholm revelled in the fun, however, and kept his jazz credentials in good shape with the Alex Welsh Band, with whom he was a frequent guest in the 1960s and 1970s, including participating in the Salute to Satchmo touring tribute in 1978.
		From the mid-60s, he freelanced in many settings, and was a frequent guest on television shows, both as a musician and a comic.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=921173329 (734 words)

	Pattaya Mail Columns
		It is the sharpness of the contrasting fls and whites that give his shots that ‘presence’.
		The fl and white nudes done by Man Ray in the 1920’s are in a similar genre.
		A fl Porsche Carrera and a fl Mercedes SLK Kompressor.
	www.pattayamail.com /296/columns.htm (5799 words)

	Black and white like me - TvRadio - www.theage.com.au
		The five years of The Black and White Minstrel Show is probably the longest-running sustained professional engagement of Lenny Henry's life, but mention of it is nowhere to be found on his CV.
		In fact, the minstrels are now as removed from his life as it's possible to be, and Henry looks back with relief at his extrication from the whole ordeal in 1980, which freed him to join the Comic Strip troupe with wife-to-be Dawn French and her daffy offsider Jennifer Saunders.
		The show begins with classic Henry mimicry (Robert de Niro as a Highland terrier, Barry White doing Shakespeare) but gradually introduces five new characters who, by the end of the show, are staging a spirited argument among themselves, using Henry as a physical conduit.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/03/1088488201118.html?from=storyrhs (1844 words)

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