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  Thomas D. Rice - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Thomas Dartmouth (T.D.) "Daddy" Rice (May, 1808 - September 16, 1860), was a comedian and the creator of the flface form of comedy of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Rice's brand of entertainment would later be considered a form of racism, although it also opened the door for fl performers.
Rice's greatest prominence came in the 1830s, before the rise of full-blown flface minstrel shows, when flface performances were typically part of a variety show or as an entr'acte in another play.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Thomas Dartmouth Rice, who gave (c.1828) the first solo performance in flface and introduced the song-and-dance act Jim Crow, is called the father of American minstrelsy.
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 Minstrel show: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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.
Thomas "Daddy" Rice invented the earliest of these stereotyped characters when he began to perform the Jump Jim Crow dance.
Other early minstrel performers quickly adopted Rice's Jim Crow, and the character would later give his name to the racial segregation laws of the 1870s.
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 Painting the Town -- Museum of the City of New York
The scene derives from a lithograph -almost a century old when the painting was donated in 1932 -recording the extravaganza of Thomas Dartmouth Rice's fifty-seventh performance "jumping" and singing the role of Jim Crow to an overflow crowd at New York's American Theatre.
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808 -1860), born in New York, had been an itinerant performer of unexceptional reputation until 1828, when (according to the most recurrently cited sources) he stumbled upon the caricature concept for Jim Crow by observing the antics of an elderly and deformed African American stable hand in Kentucky.
Rice of Kentucky in His Original and Celebrated Extravaganza of JIM CROW on Which Occasion Every Department of the House Was Thronged to an Excess Unprecedented in the Records of Theatrical Attraction.
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 Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice (May, 1808 - September 16, 1860), was a comedian and the creator of the flface form of comedy of the 1800s and early 1900s.
His act included the song and dance "Jump Jim Crow" which would be later give its name to "Jim Crow" segregation laws in the southern United States.
Rice's brand of performance would later be recognized as a form of racism although it also inadvertently opened the door for fl performers.
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 Hetzler's Fakebook - Jump Jim Crow Notes
Rice is credited with starting the theatrical form of flfaced white minstrels who caricatured the singing and dancing of  slaves.
Rice at the Park Theater in New York in 1828.
Rice's performance consisted of a song and dance that included an energetic jump off of the stage floor while singing.
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Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white actor, performed the Jim Crow Minstrel Show.Rice was inspired by an old fl man who sang and danced in Louisville,.
He was Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white entertainer who won broad fame in the 1830swith a flface routine and a patronizing song called Jim Crow..
Thomas Dartmouth Daddy Rice (May, 1808 - September 16, 1860), was a comedian andthe creator of the flface form of comedy of the 1800s and early 1900s thomas dartmouth rice..
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 American Music: 1830 - 1865   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Thomas Jefferson once said this about his plantation slaves: "The instrument proper to them is the Banjer, which they brought hither from Africa." Such an instrument was reported by European travelers to exist in Africa as early as 1621 and in Martinique (West Indies) by 1678.
This was a song and dance that Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-1860) picked up from a stable keeper's slave.
Rice performed as Jim Crow between the acts of theatrical productions and soon the act was wildly popular throughout the land.
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 Thomas rice jim crow lyrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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 Africans in America/Part 3/Jim Crow
During a visit to New York's African Theatre, Mathews claimed that an actor performing the role of "Hamlet" was interrupted by calls from the audience for the slave song "Opossum up a Gum Tree," an incident that Mathews used to construct one of the most popular segments of his show.
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice popularized the fl-faced minstrel on the American stage with his 1828 caricature of a crippled plantation slave, dancing and singing the words:
After touring American cities, Rice took his immensely popular act to London in 1836.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jim Crow
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
Disambiguation Jim Crow Jump Jim Crow is a song and dance from 1828 done in flface by white comedian Thomas Dartmouth (T.D.) Daddy Rice.
The term Jim Crow laws refers to a series of laws enacted mostly in the Southern United States in the later half of the 19th century that restricted most of the new privileges granted to African-Americans after the Civil War.
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 The Mavens' Word of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Thomas Rice (1808-1860) was not the first white man to appear in flface, but he was the person to make this form of "entertainment" popular.
Rice himself came to be known as "Jim Crow," and soon enough his cork-darkened grinning character became an archetype.
Thomas Rice died in poverty in New York, but his legacy lived on.
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 Bluegrass Messengers
This song and dance was created by Thomas ("Daddy") Rice in the 1820’s and is the earliest and one of the most popular minstrel songs both in the US and abroad..
He [Rice] tried unsuccessfully to break into New York theatre, then drifted west, working as a stagehand and 'bit player' throughout the Mississippi Valley.
It was the invention of Thomas Dartmouth ("Daddy") Rice, who got the idea for title, tune, and dance step while watching an old Negro stablehand do some tricky steps to his own humming.
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 PeoplePlay UK - Jim Crow
He was not the first white man to use burnt cork to fl his face and appear as a fl man. As early as 1767 a New York act was billed as 'a Negro dance, in character'.
According to Rice, his posture, movements and song were based on those of an elderly, lame, fl groom he had once seen.
Rather than giving a true picture of a fl slave's dance, Rice helped create the caricature which was passed down through the minstrel shows.
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 Daddy Thomas Dartmouth Rice - Showbiz Gossip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Rice, a struggling "actor" (he did short solo skits between play scenes) at the...
White performer Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice adds a new twist to the tradition of mimicking African Americans, and his "Jim Crow" dance earns him the title "father of flface minstrelsy.
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice (1806-1860) is credited with starting the phenomenal interest in fl-face singing and dancing with his imitation of "Jump Jim Crow.
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 Hetzler's Fakebook - Minstrel Show Notes
The impersonation of fls by white actors between acts of plays and fl street musicians who performed with banjo accompaniment.
Rice, who between 1828 and 1831 developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled fl slave, called Jim Crow.
The second part, or olio, consisted of a series of short skits that concluded with a hoedown or walk-around in which every member did a specialty number.
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 Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Thomas Dartmouth Rice - aka Jim Crow - Main Page
Rice first introduced this dance at the Southern Theater in Louisville Kentucky and also performed this song and dance number to audiences in Pittsburgh.
The Truckin' dance is is believed to be related to the Jump Jim Crow dance that Rice had performed.
These Jim crow laws would last up until 1954 with what is known as the "Civil Rights Movement" which began the end of the Jim Crow Laws.
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 Robert Christgau: In Search of Jim Crow: Minstrelsy
Rice was so impressed that he bought the fl man's clothes and made off with his song and dance.
Cockrell assumes the legend is true because no one bothered to deny it at the time, although he wishes he could prove the stablehand was actually a performer at one of the fl festivals he's studied.
Rice was obviously no Melville or Dickinson, no Whitman or Twain, no Douglass, and Lhamon avoids grand claims.
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 Picture History - Thomas D. Rice (c.1806-1860)
Thomas Dartmouth Rice is believed to be the first of the flface minstrels.
Rice performed the first popular minstrel song, "Jump Jim Crow," which he learned from an elderly African-American in 1828, but turned into a mockery of fls and an exploitation of their culture.
After tremendous success in the U.S., Rice went to England, where his form of entertainment became a rage.
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 Encyclopedia
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 “father of American minstrelsy” was Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice (1808–60), who between 1828 and 1831 developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled fl slave, dubbed Jim Crow.
This routine achieved immediate popularity, and Rice performed it with great success in the U.S. and Great Britain, where he introduced it in 1836.
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 Master Juba and the African Roots of American Step Dance by Peter Szego
In 1828 the white actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice fled up, put on tattered clothes, and introduced his song and dance routine, “Jump Jim Crow.” It became an instant hit on both sides of the Atlantic, thereby becoming America’s first mass market entertainment—and our first mass entertainment export.
Rice related how he learned a “ludicrous” song and dance from a local fl man and instantly transformed it into a popular theatrical performance.
Assuming that the description of the stable hand is accurate, the very characteristics that are described as “deformed” and “laughable” are probably the most African elements of Crow’s dance: his nonchalance, the bent knees, swaying hips, loose arm and shoulder movements, and the basic asymmetry of the dance.
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 PeoplePlay UK - The Real Jim Crow
The song and dance in the pantomime was a parody of 'Jump Jim Crow', a song which became a huge 19th century hit in the United States.
It was first performed in 1828 by the white comedian and minstrel Thomas Dartmouth Rice, fled up as an African American.
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 Who or what was Jim Crow? in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings
An American entertainer named Thomas Dartmouth 'Daddy' Rice had a huge hit in 1828 with song and dance routine called 'Jim Crow Jump', and thereafter he became known as Jim Crow Rice.
Although not the first performer to 'fl up', Rice made his mark with his minstrel shows, and was enormously popular both in the USA and Britain, where he toured in the 1830s.
The less than flattering portrayal of African-Americans in these shows led to the term Jim Crow being used as a derogatory term for fl people, for the segregation of whites and fls and thence to the laws brought in after the American Civil War to uphold white supremacy in the South.
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 The Mavens' Word of the Day
The expression has its origins in a song called "Jump Jim Crow" sung in flface by one Thomas Dartmouth Rice in the early 19th century.
The public took to this song and dance, and soon Rice was touring the United States and, later, England and Ireland.
His stereotypical portrayal of the singing, dancing, devil-may-care fl person became the symbol and catchword for all the repressions inflicted upon African-Americans by whites after the Civil War and well into the 20th century.
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But "Daddy" Rice did not invent Jim Crow; he observed him somewhere in Kentucky or Ohio, co-opting the image and dialect for himself and the entertainment of his audience.
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