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	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/Minstrelsy.html (1849 words)

	J. H. Haverly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With four minstrel companies as his raw materials, he created a single troupe, dubbed Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels.
		He also reinforced the belief that fl minstrels were authentic portrayers of African American life by moving to a format of almost all plantation-themed material.
		He sold the Georgia Minstrels to Charles and Gustave Frohman in 1882.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J_H_Haverly (867 words)

	Minstrel Show - Search View - 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 /text_761578073__1/Minstrel_Show.html (581 words)

	Minstrel show - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Following a pattern that had been pioneered by Rice, minstrelsy united workers and "class superiors" against a common fl enemy, symbolized especially by the character of the fl dandy.Lott 137-8. In this same period, the class-conscious but racially inclusive rhetoric of "wage slavery" was largely supplanted by a racist one of "white slavery".
		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.
		Minstrel dance was generally not held to the same mockery as other parts, though contemporaries such as Fanny Kemble argued that minstrel dance was merely a "faint, feeble, impotent—in a word, pale Northern reproductions of that ineffable fl conception."Kemble, Fanny.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Minstrel_show (6771 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)

	Primrose and West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They later went into the business of minstrel troupe ownership with a refined, high-class approach that signaled the final stage in the development of minstrelsy as a distinct form of entertainment.
		They formed their own company, which largely copied Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels with its elaborate sets and visual spectacle.
		Primrose and West adopted Hague's techniques of ultra-refinement: Ballet and high-class music played by a large orchestra replaced low comedy and African American-themed song and dance as the main focus, and sets and costumes came to mimic fancy European powdered wigs and eveningwear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Primrose (417 words)

	Minstrel Show - MSN Encarta
		In 1842, in New York City, the songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett and three companions devised a program of singing and dancing in flface to the accompaniment of bone castanets, violin, banjo, and tambourine.
		Its banjo music influenced the development of ragtime, and its clog dancing, the evolution of tap dance.
		Economic reasons contributed to the decline, as did a growing craze for gigantic minstrel shows—exemplified by Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels, with over 100 performers and lavish stage settings; and the famous Lew Dockstader's Minstrels, which presented elaborate programs related to modern vaudeville rather than to the older, simpler form.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578073/Minstrel_Show.html (521 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / BEHIND THE BLACKFACE
		In fact, the minstrel show-the first uniquely American entertainment form-was born when Northern white men fled their faces, adopted heavy dialects, and performed what they claimed were fl songs, dances, and jokes to entertain white Americans.
		In their plantation material, minstrels concentrated on the fun and games of slave Hf e—what the Virginia Minstrels described as “the Sports, and Pastimes of the Virginia Colored Race.” This made for an entertaining show, but it also meant presenting slaves as happy, dancing children for whom life was a continual frolic.
		In minstrel shows, fls lived either on Southern plantations where they were contented and secure, or in Northern towns where they were bewildered and insecure-which is probably very much the way life seemed to the many minstrel fans who had recently moved from farms to cities.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1978/3/1978_3_93.shtml (2497 words)

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		The favorite material for boat-building in the United States is white cedar (Cupressus thyoides), which grows in dense forests in the swamps along the coast of New Jersey, as well as in other parts of North America.
		For eight years Blennerhasset lived upon his island, enjoying more than is accorded to the lot of most mortals; but the story of his position, his intelligence, his wealth, his wonderful social influence upon those around him, reached at length the ear of one who marked him for his prey.
		The brain of this brilliant but ill- balanced and unprincipled man was ever rife with ambitious schemes, and the taste of political power in his position as vice-president of the United States seemed to have driven him towards the accomplishment of one of the boldest and most extravagant dreams he ever imagined.
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		Born in Antigua, West Indies on November 12, 1874, his family moved to the United States when he was a child, settling first in Riverside, California in 1885.
		He was forced to earn his livelihood by turning to his natural inclination for mimicry and entertaining in the cafes along San Francisco's Barbary Coast, to the accompaniment of his banjo.
		In the summer of 1893 he joined Martin and Seig's Mastodon Minstrels and it was during this time that he met George “Bon Bon” Walker.
	www.caljazzdance.com /bert.htm (511 words)

	American Minstrel Show Collection
		The bulk of the American Minstrel Show Collection consists of advertisement material promoting minstrel performances from the 1850s through the 1920s.
		The minstrel show, one of the earliest indigenous forms of American entertainment, developed in the 1840s, peaked after the Civil War and remained popular into the early 1900s.
		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.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/tc050.html (921 words)

	Burnt Cork and Tambourines
		This was, indeed, a splendid minstrel company, and met with great prosperity and this very great prosperity caused its final dissolution, which began in internal dissensions between the owners and ended in fisticuffs and separation.
		Indeed, it was quite probably due to the influence of Rice and his darky dandies that the negro minstrels confined their efforts to the imitation of the town Negro rather than of the plantation Negro, the field hand of the Uncle Remus type.
		But although the minstrels may have taken over this effective trick from the circus, with which some of the earlier performers had had intimate relations, the trick itself is of remote antiquity.
	www.circushistory.org /Cork/BurntCork6.htm (15944 words)

	The History of Logan County
		A tooth from a mastodon, an important animal to the Paleo-Indians, was found near West Liberty.
		Kennedy served in the Union Army during the Civil War rising from 2nd lieutenant to Brigadier General at the age of 25, one of the youngest to achieve that rank during the Civil War.
		In 1998, the firm had 4,276 branch offices in the United States, 170 in Canada and 38 in the United Kingdom.
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		His family moved to the United States when he was a child, settling in Riverside, California in 1885.
		As Williams continued to perform on the streets of San Francisco he was given the opportunity to join Lew Johnson's minstrel tour of lumber camps in 1893 which conducted performances between San Francisco and Eureeka.
		His character in the minstrel tour was a slow-witted shiftless, slouch Negro who could neither read nor write who had a certain resistant, and not altogether inaccurate, philosophy of life.
	www.hariam.org /CHWR/bertw.html (2074 words)

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		The fourth of six children, she was born in either Hainan or Shanghai2 to Charlie Soong, a Methodist minister and businessman who made a fortune selling bibles in China.
		May-ling moved to the United States to attend boarding school at the age of eight.
		War, minstrel troupes grew bigger and bigger as each troupe tried to outdo the others (J.H. Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels had over 100 cast members, for example).
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		The minstrels had to please their audience, predominantly white Northerners, by playing music the spectators would find familiar and pleasant.
		Dances like the Turkey Trot, the Buzzard Lope, and the Juba Dance all had their origins on the plantations of the South.
		Radio shows also got into the act, a fact perhaps best exemplified by the popular Amos and Andy program.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Minstrel_show (1885 words)

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	MADISON SQUARE THEATRE
		Also in May, 1881, Charles, the youngest of the Frohmans, was stranded in Salt Lake City during a tour to the coast as manager of the "Haverly Mastodon Minstrels." Fortunately Gustave Frohman, then in 'Frisco with the Number One "Hazel Kirke" Company, advanced him the money necessary to get to the coast.
		While in 'Frisco, Charles mentioned to G. that he thought it was time he quit the minstrels as he was only getting twenty-five dollars a week.
		Charles went back to "Haverly's Minstrels," and in March, 1885, A. Palmer, formerly of Shook and Palmer of the Union Square Theater, was installed as manager of the Madison Square by the Mallorys.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /madisonsquaretheatre.htm (2865 words)

	Olympians of the Sawdust Circle
		Following, toured the United States, went to England and was engaged by William Manders, a menagerie proprietor, 1857.
		Was considered expert and daring bareback rider, but at about 35 years of age fell from a horse while performing the “Drunken Sailor” act and was kicked in the knee by the animal, which rendered him unable to continue a riding career.
		First engagement in the United States, Lee & Bennett (Bennett was a California banker), San Francisco, 1856; made NYC debut, 1857, old Bowery Theatre under the management of VanAmburgh & Co. Arriving toward the end of January of that year and flattered the press by giving a preview of riding for them before performing publicly.
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	[ aquarius records new arrivals list #138 ]
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		Mastodon seems even more metal than those metalcore worthies, though.
		But there's also some quite pretty melody to be found amidst Mastodon's math n' mayhem, and they have an almost 'post-rock' sense of dynamics (something most 'extreme' metal acts lack).
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	List of blackface minstrel troupes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of flface minstrel troupes.
		List of entertainers known to have performed in flface
		Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_blackface_minstrel_troupes (80 words)

	1911 Historical Highlights of Times Square & surrounding areas
		THE VARIAN TREE One of the last relics of the olden time to disappear was a tree on the west side in front of Number 1151, near Twenty-sixth Street, which was the Varian Tree, which had been at the gateway of the old Varian farm near the homestead; it stood until before 1880.
		A FEW TID-BITS REGARDING THEATRES OF THE AREA The San Francisco Minstrels moved up-town between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets, on the west side, in 1874, and with Birch, Wambold, and Backus ran successfully for several years.
		He was obliged to go back to the paleozoic age for an animal big enough to represent the size of his show, with eight end men and the company in proportion.
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	GlobalEar.com - Global Writing Worth Reading
		The San Sebastian Inland Harbor Project, being out in the open and having been discussed in the City Commission, is an ideal example for informing people of what is happening in their community as it develops and to see how transformations can occur.
		The continental shelf, which stretches 200-km into the Bay of Bengal, was created on the Gangetic delta by billions of tonnes of sediment carried by the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
		That the ones who search through time, hear music, the music of the elephant yards and the mastodon pits, sometimes at night hearing the saber tooth tiger roar, and feeling the winds that inconsistently swirled through them and of those yet to come, with their old and new instruments, and the music was sweet.
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	W. H. Prescott, The History of The Conquest of Mexico
		They were found wild, not only in New Spain, but all along the continent, in the less frequented places, from the North-western territory of the United States to Panama.
		The Mexican nobles entertained minstrels in their houses, who composed ballads suited to the times, or the achievements of their lord, which they chanted, to the accompaniment of instruments, at the festivals and dances.
		Indeed, there was more or less dancing at most of the festivals, and it was performed in the court-yards of the houses, or in the open squares of the city.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/PRESCOTT/bk01_ch05.html (5899 words)

	Active.com - From the plains to the Rockies, Colorado loves vintage ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Mike "Mallard" Moger is the treasurer of the CVBBA as well as the captain and leading hurler and founder of the Mastodon Mine Minstrels.
		And in order to pay for their new baseball habit, if you will, and some traveling expenses, they put together a musical review.
		The first documented mention of women playing baseball anywhere in the United States was in a letter from Vassar student Annie Glidden to her brother on April 20, 1866: "They are getting up various clubs now for outdoor exercise.
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	Proceedings: Svinth 2003, GSJSA
		She also wrote letters for illiterate soldiers and did her best to avoid rough soldiers’ games such as wrestling.
		(The one time she did wrestle, she was flung to the ground.) After the war, Sampson married, and in 1838 her husband became the first man to receive a pension from the United States government for his wife’s military service.
		While many middle-class women heeded Headington’s advice, fewer upper-class women did, causing female athleticism, especially in golf, tennis, and cycling, to become increasingly common throughout the late nineteenth century.
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	Ray Andrews
		At the start, the interest of Royalty and other wealthy patrons was a factor in the banjo and minstrel shows becoming fashionable, and this continued later in the 19th century.
		From the 1830s, minstrel shows were a major part of commercial theatrical and popular entertainment in both America and Britain.
		According to Keeler, a further company, known as Haverley's Mastodon Minstrels toured England in 1884 'in which there were nearly 60 performers...
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/r_andrew.htm (15395 words)

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