| 单词 | minstrel |
| 例句 | After the skits, Dad sometimes would put on a one-man minstrel show for us, in which he played the parts of both the Messrs. Jones and Bones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z As Elrond entered and went towards the seat prepared for him, elvish minstrels began to make sweet music. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Historians have long debated why blacks would attend minstrel shows when the images and content were so blatantly racist. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His appeal, his tears, moved all the gentry listening there; but now they saw the crier and the minstrel come from Odysseus’ hall, where they had slept. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Black minstrels were largely viewed as celebrities, earning more money and achieving more fame than African Americans ever had before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “They might question even a minstrel such as I. ’Tis safer for our skins to go softly.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The squire brought down, and gave Demodokos, the clear-toned harp; and centering on the minstrel magical young dancers formed a circle with a light beat, and stamp of feet. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The minstrel drew sweet sounds from his lyre and waked in all the longing for the dance. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people of any race would probably condemn the minstrel show but stop short of condemning the minstrel as a man. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A joculator was a juggler, a low kind of minstrel, and Sir Grummore did not relish the idea at alL “However could we dress as the Questin’ Beast?” he asked weakly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Gangsta rap—while it may amount to little more than a minstrel show when it appears on MTV today—has its roots in the struggle for a positive identity among outcasts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I am but a messenger and minstrel. But who knows? I might find myself close to the enemy. Closer than I would like,” he added with a shrug. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Whether thou’rt bent or straight, well or ill, knight or clerk, lord or minstrel.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The gold spoons on the table and the jingle bells on the juggler’s cap, the strings on the minstrels’ guitars and the crowns on the king’s and the queen’s heads. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I could not believe that there had been music stands in the minstrels' gallery, and a band playing there, a man with a fiddle, a man with a drum. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We passed out together on to the landing beyond, and I saw we were at the head of the main staircase now, behind the minstrels’ gallery. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One more who had avoided furious death was the son of Terpis, Phemios, the minstrel, singer by compulsion to the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the glad shout had swelled up and died away again, to Sam’s final and complete satisfaction and pure joy, a minstrel of Gondor stood forth, and knelt, and begged leave to sing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “If you merry minstrels want to knock off, you can,” says Mr. Van Deusen. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When I had finished I went upstairs to the minstrels’ gallery to have a look at the pictures. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve heard them talk. He talks like they do in minstrel shows.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is difficult to look at pictures of black people performing in minstrel shows during the Jim Crow era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Attend to me as I draw back the curtain to reveal a long-kept minstrel’s secret Let’s say you are out at an inn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With the benefit of hindsight, we can see the minstrel in his social context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There, visiting pilgrims, knights at arms, merchants, and minstrels gathered, each awaiting the attention of the Prior. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z They danced to the rhythm of the minstrels’ music, swaying back and forth, twinkling and beckoning. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick, light footstep. I could not mistake it anywhere. And in the minstrels’ gallery above the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The damage done by the minstrel’s complicity in the Jim Crow regime was considerable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But keeping friendly appearances is a minstrel’s business just as much as music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “And she appreciated your playing. Have you ever thought of trying out as a minstrel? They say Imre’s a good place for it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Rebecca slashing at her horse; Rebecca seizing life with her two hands; Rebecca, triumphant, leaning down from the minstrels’ gallery with a smile on her lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He whistled a popular tune of the moment with easy confidence, and I thought how to-night perhaps the band would play the same tune in the minstrels’ gallery above the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The exhibit was a series of silhouettes of slaves and minstrels. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The new racial order, known as Jim Crow—a term apparently derived from a minstrel show character—was regarded as the “final settlement,” the “return to sanity,” and “the permanent system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even the minstrels who came in the back yards and sang were sad, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "Because," announced Tristran, "every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Like the minstrel shows of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, today’s displays are generally designed for white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He turned, led the procession, and those princes followed, while his herald sought the minstrel. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But soon the minstrel plucked his note once more to please the Phaiakian lords, who loved the song; then in his cloak Odysseus wept again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted his tail off the ground and held it at an angle and marched in time to the music the minstrels were playing on their guitars. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He looked inside and saw gathered there King Phillip, Queen Rosemary, the Princess Pea, twenty noble people, a juggler, four minstrels, and all the king’s men. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z While few music educators would ever condone blackface, countless teachers, choir and band directors, and music publishers continue to teach and print the songs associated with 19th century minstrel performance. Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z A humorous set-piece in the tradition of the minstrel favorite “The Arkansas Traveler,” the record reached the Top 20 of the Billboard country singles chart. Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Colman Domingo, whose “Scottsboro” roles include a racist white sheriff, a vicious guard and an anti-Semitic attorney general, said that when he learned of the minstrel conceit, “my first reaction was, ‘Really?’ ” New Musicals That Strike a Somber Chord 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z It was a prejudice that stretched as far back as Thomas Jefferson in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” and was later reinforced by minstrel shows. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Yes, it's an interesting artifact of American entertainment, but its time - like vaudeville and minstrel shows - has come and gone. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The 1859 Confederate anthem “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land” was written for Northern minstrel performers, McGraw and Meacham note. Review | How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Despite the evocation of blackface and minstrel shows, Groening denies that the intention was racist. Goodbye Apu – here’s what you meant to us 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Brown's earlier work "Mr. Tol E. Rance" was an ambitious examination of the stereotypes of black entertainers and comedians, including performers in minstrel shows and popular sitcoms. 'Black Girl: Linguistic Play' explores history and culture through double Dutch and other games 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “This kind of black imitation is very reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows,” the singer-songwriter Moses Sumney wrote in a letter to the festival, explaining his decision to withdraw from it. Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z So much about the show is totally phony, but there's a core of reality to the people, even though they're all obviously playacting and putting on kind of guido minstrel show. "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z Q. Do you deny starring in your fraternity’s racially insensitive minstrel show? Style Invitational Week 1170: Derby or not Derby — our famous ‘foal’ contest 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The musical, with David Thompson supplying the book and Susan Stroman directing and choreographing, takes the form of a minstrel show, with some black actors also portraying white and female characters. New Musicals That Strike a Somber Chord 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z “They had horrible portrayals of Native people, with a lot of red facing,” he said, using a term for when white actors colored their skin to played minstrel versions of Native characters. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Abdurraqib, a poet, cultural critic and essayist, uses the tales of Black performers to make powerful observations about race in America, gliding through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z I’ve done productions before that led me to confront the whole minstrel era. Tony nominee Savion Glover: Go ahead, call me a Hoofer 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Live entertainment typically comprised touring minstrel shows with performers in blackface, as well as forgettable light operas with names such as “The Black Hussar” and “Paradise Flats.” For one wild era, walking was the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The Met has assembled an exceptional cast, headed by the tenor Johan Botha as Tannhäuser, the knight minstrel who, when we meet him, has been dwelling in the realm of Venus, basking in her love. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and wrote or co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer," ''Turn, Turn, Turn," ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY 2014-01-28T13:59:01Z “He wears the cloak and scepter of the American minstrel; he’s that guy,” said Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and Elliott’s longtime friend. At 91, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Still Wants to Tell You a Story 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z From onscreen images of African Americans as minstrels to white actors in blackface, Black lives in the early 20th century were rarely projected in a positive light. In Films and on TV, a New Openness to Natural Black Hairstyles 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The now-closed musical frames the 1930s-era story of nine black teenagers wrongfully put on death row as an inverted minstrel show. At the Tonys, 'Book of Mormon' favored to win big 2011-06-12T12:04:11Z Blackwell, with its murals, banqueting hall and minstrels' gallery, is perhaps the fullest realisation of Morris's idea of an England that never was. William Morris 2010-09-07T22:29:00Z Today, “Jim Crow” refers to the laws that codified government-enforced segregation, but the name originally came from a popular minstrel character — a fictional black man who would act like a buffoon in public places. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Although often addressed as a uniquely American performance tradition and problem, blackface performances were exported globally both through blackface performances of Shakespeare's Othello and through blackface minstrel shows. In a year of Black Lives Matter protests, Dutch wrestle (again) with the tradition of Black Pete 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Blackface minstrel shows begin their ascent in popular culture. 200 years of authenticity (or lack thereof) in casting 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images "I wanted to give the impression of a troubadour or minstrel telling a tale," says Owens of the riff that takes up more than five of the album's 28 minutes. Christopher Owens on life after Girls 2013-02-01T14:00:00Z Framing the story as a minstrel show that, while subversively comic, means derogatory language and blackface are part of the action. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Years later, she would bring back her minstrel in 1937’s “Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field,” when he would again relate marvels, this time to the small daughters of the former milkmaids. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “Sounds like you’re playing a minstrel character on public television,” he says. On “GLOW,” Welfare Queen vs. Liberty Belle is a fight bigger than the ring 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “It is a minstrel show for women,” she told him. ‘Real Housewives’ Invited Me In. How Could I Say No? 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The film tries to give the men, who include a chicken farmer, a minstrel and a storekeeper, cinematic stature by photographing them in carefully posed shots. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z Wander back in time and check out a reproduction of a 14th-century English village, games, maypole dancing, minstrels, sheepshearing and authentic medieval crafts including blacksmithing and longbow archery, from noon-5 p.m., The Week Ahead: Opening Day, Hilary Hahn and derby party 2014-04-23T22:19:40Z Attributed to a minstrel called Blind Harry, the medieval epic The Wallace was the second bestselling book in Scotland after the Bible for several hundred years after its publication. William Wallace leads charge of TV history dramas 2013-07-20T12:10:37Z “I think the baggage is not just the minstrel show, but the story itself,” Wormley says. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “The Macon song has some minstrel elements, but it is also just flat-out racist — and misogynistic — as hell.” The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z They didn't want this opera to be turned into a minstrel show or white washed for the comfort of whites. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z “Out of the minstrel show came all the stereotypes: Black men are dangerous, they love watermelon, they’re crazy, outlandish, obnoxious characters,” Wormley says. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z You can learn a lot about Costello and his outfit from this misplaced deification of junkie buffoon Doherty and his merry band of overrated minstrels because that's who the Tunics' punky skiffle most resembles. The Tunics (No 927) 2010-12-09T17:31:00Z In return, the Americans offer their own startling entertainment – a minstrel show performed by members of the crew in blackface. British Museum snaps up 50ft Japanese scroll 2013-04-02T14:38:48Z Meanwhile, abolitionist Frederick Douglass made it a point to become the era’s most-photographed man, in direct opposition to a culture drenched in racist images of minstrels and contented slaves. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Herriman’s early cartoons draw on the stereotypes of the time; he was even in a minstrel show himself once. What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps even more disturbingly, there’s something inherently soothing about such stereotypes for mass audiences – a point particularly relevant to the wild popularity of Bamboozled’s own minstrel show. Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In "Neighbors," for example, a mixed-race, upwardly mobile family gets a whole new set of problems when the Crows, who wear blackface and enact the cartoonish stereotypes of minstrel shows, move in next door. Spotlight shines brighter on 'Appropriate' playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Traipsing into the house next door are a family of minstrel characters, the Crows, who are also minstrel performers, all played with impressive verve by black actors in blackface. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z Before becoming an opera house regular, Whitman was a fan of lighter fare, in particular the Hutchinson Family Singers and minstrel shows. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z FIDDLIN’ AROUND: The author of this nearly 200-year-old folk song is unknown, but it first gained popularity as a staple of minstrel performers. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z One family is mixed marriage, and the next door neighbors are African-American members of a minstrel show in black face. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Squirming in the Seats 2011-04-11T12:00:11Z Spike Lee himself has often been condemned for portraying African-Americans in a negative light, although his criticism of Perry seems more in line with Lee's own movie from 2000 about modern-day minstrel shows, "Bamboozled." Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee: Let's bring the Jews into this! 2011-04-20T20:06:00Z This central area leads to a near-three-story great room with a beamed cathedral ceiling, fireplaces at each end, a minstrel gallery, quarter-sawn oak parquet floors, and French doors that open onto the spacious terrace. Tour a Luxe Estate in Greenwich, Connecticut 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and marched with Occupy Wall Street protesters in his 90s, leaning on two canes. Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY 2014-01-28T07:32:53Z And there’s the other rub: “The Scottsboro Boys” is framed as a minstrel show. Two noted and nomadic musicals destined for D.C.? It's a harrowing historical chapter, reconfigured in the form of a subverted, old-time minstrel show on a simple set. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z When the show was announced last summer, a sick side of me rooted for the delicious worst: for years I’ve been writing about such a minstrel show, working on a novel about Iranian-American reality TV. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z In the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a display about minstrel shows sits about eight feet from a display on lynching. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It is the 1910s, and he is an actor hopping a boxcar on his way to a minstrel show. Review: In ‘Freight,’ a Black Man Follows the Script for Five Incarnations 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Not to mention “My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place” by the American Standards, minstrels of the American Standard Company, maker of toilets. Jim Nayder, 59, Specialist in ‘Annoying Music,’ Dies 2013-07-04T00:14:07Z And all told by resurrecting one of theater’s most controversial storytelling devices, the minstrel show. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Reynolds dissects dozens of imitative novels, plays and minstrel shows — some against, others for slavery or segregation — and traces the influence of Stowe's novel into modern times, including film spin-offs. 'Mightier than the Sword': How 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' changed the course of American history 2011-06-15T19:38:03Z City officials performed in blackface in minstrel shows, and black children were allowed in the local pool only on Wednesdays. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The heading of the finale, Cakewalk, suggests a minstrel dance, and the versatile Mr. Bolcom delivers the goods with flair. Music Review: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and New Century Chamber Orchestra - Review 2011-11-20T22:49:08Z Two minstrels discover the sister’s body on the shore and shape her breast bone into a harp. Music Review: The Tale Those Strings Can Tell 2011-02-04T23:57:02Z Cartoonists portrayed Wilde, or Wildesque characters, as a black minstrel or a monkey, with the aesthetes’ iconic sunflower. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z For all the reworking, the show’s narrative structure remains intact: the tale of the Scottsboro Boys unfolds as a minstrel show. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z A piercing shot captures white men performing minstrel music in blackface, laying out a stark truth about appropriation and racism. 'The Birth of Rock and Roll': Book of found photos tells vivid history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z "Where are all the bedroom minstrels?" he wondered. Open Mic Night 2010-06-16T06:59:00Z Drake wears a T-shirt with a Jim Crow illustration on it; his face is painted like a minstrel, his smile wide and grotesque. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As do their extravagant outfits: Sporting clobber more suited to a medieval minstrel or a Bedouin, the members knew that peacocking was at least as important as playing. Review: ‘Soul Boys of the Western World’ Revisits Spandau Ballet 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z It is long past time to revisit the ubiquity of minstrel songs in our schools. Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “Mislaid” feels like a subversive minstrel show sprung from an encyclopedic mind drunk on the Mad Hatter’s tea. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The musical frames the story as a minstrel show - that deeply racist storytelling device performed by whites in blackface - and then immediately subverts it by having an all-black cast. 2 very daring musicals lead the Tony Awards race 2011-05-04T01:01:04Z Some performances of the show even drew protesters who claimed the musical was actually embracing the minstrel convention. 2 very daring musicals lead the Tony Awards race 2011-05-04T01:01:04Z Phetogo uses that substance to invoke blackface, once used in American and European minstrel shows but also in Ghana’s “concert party” performances. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Another worry is that, because of the minstrel tradition, there is something implicitly satirical or artificial in cross-casting. Makeup for Johnny Depp 2011-02-20T22:00:04Z The instrument would remain the province of slaves until the Civil War, when it was taken up by white musicians in the rural South, who discovered the banjo through black musicians and via minstrel shows. | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z In another exhibit, a dancer inside a box festooned with black movie posters puts on whiteface in front of a mirror, preparing for a minstrel performance. ‘Black History Museum’ Review: Learn. Laugh. Suffer. Move Along. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Like some minstrel show jokester, Davenport reported that black people excelled at music but trailed whites in complex mental activities. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z We are the last wandering minstrels, racing town to town, big clubs and small, piano player to piano player. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Or is that more minstrel show stuff -- an example of the cast playing up the stereotype because the audience demands it? "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z She hails from a dubious performance tradition that started in minstrel theatres, in the nineteenth century, and, since the nineteen-eighties, has been floridly revived by black male comedians doing intra-racial pseudo-drag. Pour One Out for Tyler Perry’s Madea 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The bluntness of institutionalized identity politics leaves him “feeling like a fraud, or worse—a minstrel show.” The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z About half the book covers engravings on teeth; sailors illustrated creamy spikes with ships, flags, Polynesian dancers, Austro-Hungarian minstrels and dentists. Antiques: Scrimshaw in New Book From New Bedford Whaling Museum 2013-01-10T21:54:56Z He had deep experience in the sanctified church and in the chitlin’ circuit of African-American clubs and theaters, along with drag shows, strip joints and, even in the 20th century, minstrel shows. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z She is all but absent from one chapter about the history of blues and minstrel singing, but we learn more than we could ever want to know about vaudeville stars Eva Tanguay and Sophie Tucker. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Starting in the early 19th century, minstrel shows — which trafficked in stereotypes that demeaned and lampooned African Americans — were an enormously popular form of American entertainment. Review | Daring idea, but flawed e xecution, in ‘Day of Absence’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z W. E. B. DuBois claimed that Foster's songs – in contrast to other minstrel songs – represented a bridge between the music of enslaved people and 20th century Black songwriters. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The minstrel in European and North American society evolved as a parody — an ignorant interpretation — of the griot, the storyteller and guide of West African culture. Ulysses Jenkins: Journeys of a Video Griot 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They were, after all, a callback to the minstrel shows of the 1800s — comedy skits by singing, dancing white men who had painted their faces with burnt cork. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Entirely sonic, the Sims piece is based on a single familiar song, “Dixie,” composed for pre-Civil War minstrel shows and meant to mock clichés of “happy” Black slave life. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Modern minstrels still strum their strings every summer at Jazz à Vienne, the annual festival held in a perfectly intact first-century Roman theater. Le Dauphiné, a French Region With a History Both Ancient and Personal 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It was unclear if the use of blackface, a throwback to minstrel and vaudeville shows which parodied black people, stemmed from ignorance or disregard, said Parham. Fraternity's blackface Jay-Z parody video fuels university racism storm 2013-04-26T18:59:00Z This relaxed, strolling minstrel evoked a stream of folksy vaudevillians, from Will Rogers through Guthrie and beyond. Music Review: ?Songs of America? at the 92nd Street Y 2012-02-14T22:26:54Z “Nobody,” a hidden track, was the theme for Bert Williams, the minstrel star. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z The roughly 15-foot-square mosaic features a bust of the fabled minstrel Orpheus in the center, framed and bordered by hexagons containing a variety of spellbound animals. Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z He turns that minstrel into a Catskills tummler in a tunic. Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z This free fair turns the park into a village from the Middle Ages, with jesters, jousters, troubadours, minstrels, wizards and all manner of knights and damsels. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In antebellum America, the minstrel show was one of the most popular forms of musical entertainment. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Consider Glover’s dancing, presumably choreographed to mimic a minstrel character; the murder of choir singers, evoking the Charleston church massacre; and death riding in on a white horse. How the end of the MTV era led to a music video renaissance 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a minstrel who claims his wife was stolen by someone in a green Mercedes years ago is chronicled by a Tehran photographer. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Or are they wandering minstrels from the middle ages? Artist of the week 205: Francis Upritchard 2012-08-30T11:37:22Z The film has been widely criticized for its portrayal of both the South and its black characters—who embody minstrel stereotypes about lazy, stupid black people. “Gone with the Wind” must stay: Why banning the racist film solves nothing 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Clichés about him as a wandering minstrel in a white beard trailed like the Pied Piper by children toting his canvases across hill and dale haven’t exactly toughened his reputation, either. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z The song, initially known as One Horse Open Sleigh, was first performed in blackface in a minstrel show in Boston in September 1857, she discovered. Is Jingle Bells racist? Despite backlash from the right, it's not black and white 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Medieval Festival for May: Medieval games, minstrels, archery, blacksmithing, 1 p.m. Community Corner: Free Comic Book Day, warthogs' zoo debut 2012-05-04T19:18:05Z In case that point isn't apparent, the third season's in your face clones of "The Handmaid Tale," "Queer Eye" and Simien's exaggerated minstrel figure Mista Griggins set it off in neon. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Abdurraqib reflects on Black performance in America through essays on television, music, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But don’t think this TV room is anything like yours — unless yours includes a minstrels’ gallery, ornamental swords and Flemish tapestries displayed on soaring walls. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Students attended mock slave auctions and blackface minstrel shows. How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z After several false starts, she hit upon her signature minstrel mode, playing all the characters in one-woman musical comedies of her own devising. Isy Suttie interview: 'I'd love to work with Victoria Wood' 2012-06-03T17:30:01Z However, in May, HighTide and the Nuffield theatre will present the UK premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's comedy Neighbours, which requires black actors in blackface to play a family of minstrel performers. Actors to wear blackface for 'hackle-raising' new play 2013-01-04T16:32:10Z A woman with improbable eyelashes and a Pierrot’s face has us gather around an upright piano as she sings a sad tale of a minstrel. Review: Specters of the Stage Enchant in ‘Ghost Light’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z That was certainly the case in the last century, starting with minstrel music and ragtime and then jazz. Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z Although Foster’s songs aren’t often as virulently racist as minstrel songs, his lyrics almost invariably traffic in caricatured, exaggerated speech patterns and other racist stereotypes. Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z He is best known for plays that use “ ‘blackness’ as a material,” as he puts it, including the incendiary “Neighbors,” in which a black family wears the blackface makeup of minstrel shows. Theater Review: In ‘Appropriate,’ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Subverts Tradition 2014-03-17T02:00:16Z Indeed, minstrel songs represent a significant part of the repertoire associated with early childhood and elementary-level music education. Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z They were originally posted around Manhattan to advertise Shakespeare plays, minstrel shows, new American plays and early musicals. 19th-Century Playbills to Be Restored and Digitized 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z He left home and began performing with traveling medicine and minstrel shows, part of a 19th-century tradition that was dying out. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z The minstrel boy to the war is gone,In the ranks of death you’ll find him.His father’s sword he has girded on,And his wild harp slung behind him. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Redd’s father took him to see traveling minstrel shows when he was a boy, and he was particularly struck by the one-legged tap dancer Peg Leg Bates moving to the rhythm of a trap drummer. Redd Holt, Drummer on Instrumentals That Became Pop Hits, Dies at 91 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton,” that most notorious of blackface minstrel songs declares. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The 2010 play "Neighbors," in which actors in blackface reference historical minstrel acts, was produced that year at the Matrix Theatre in L.A. Why a MacArthur Foundation grant for playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 31, is no surprise at all 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But then when we start getting into the minstrel, it’s not about who you are, it’s about what has been put on to you. Camille A. Brown’s Latest Dance Challenge? To Have Fun. 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z They got very little press attention but huge audiences, and the production was full of classic moments, including the minstrel and the Eastern European Fun Club. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z That’s when Moses’ plan to extend Fifth Avenue through Washington Square Park met with fierce resistance from a new kind of opponent: the “minstrels and artistic women with handbags” of Greenwich Village. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “The minstrel show elements are, I like to think, part of the entertainment, but in a way that makes you think about how we tell stories, tell our history as Americans,” Mr. Kander said. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Are the minstrel characters mere figments of Richard’s imagination conjured by his ambivalence about assimilation? Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z There is the truly alarming sight of Mr. Glover’s body, and the minstrel twitch that sends his limbs spasming and causes his eyes to pop. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z And both productions use a Brechtian framework of popular bygone theater forms: vaudeville for “Chicago” and the minstrel show for “Scottsboro Boys.” Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z While Wilde lectured on aesthetics as, essentially, a caricature of himself, he had to compete with parodies, some by minstrel troupes, of himself and of “Patience,” too. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z In this case, it is to a minstrel show and dance, held for Metropolitan Museum of Art employees on Oct. Review: In Robin Coste Lewis’s ‘Voyage of the Sable Venus,’ Poems on Race 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Aug. 27-28 Theatre, knightly combat, puppetry, crafts, archery, minstrels, food at living history village in England in the year 1376, the realm of King Arthur, period costume rental available, noon-5 p.m.; Summer Guide | August 2016 events around Seattle 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Venus drops in on the Wartburg song contest, but is shooed off by a minstrel dressed as a friar. Opera Review: At Bayreuth, a Fight Between Love and Order in Radical 'Tannh?user' 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z A recent visitor, who arrived on foot, was a wandering minstrel named Cave Magghie. Doug Stanhope, Miles from Where the Action Is 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The title “The Mikado” calls to mind images of a lovesick wandering minstrel, a Lord High Executioner and a trio of schoolgirls filled with girlish glee. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Blackface is an offensive practice, reminiscent of the minstrel shows of the 19th and early 20th centuries that relied on singing, dancing caricatures of black people, frequently portrayed by white people in blackface. Seattle Opera’s ‘Aida’ spurs discussion of ways black people are misrepresented — or not represented — in opera 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Switching between playing a replica of an 1858 minstrel banjo and a fiddle, Ms. Giddens filled the room with her soaring soprano. Rhiannon Giddens Celebrates ‘Freedom Highway’ in the Big House 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, closer acquaintances, including members of the royal family, might attend one of Leighton's famous musical soirées in the cavernous studio which doubled as an assembly room, complete with minstrels' gallery. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z What I saw Saturday night was dangerously close to a minstrel show and not the fault of these earnest young actors.” ArtsBeat Blog: Casting Director Says She Didn't Pick Actors to Play Latino Roles 2011-12-05T21:53:14Z Nanki-Poo, the son of the Japanese emperor Mikado, disguises himself as a minstrel to avoid being married off to Katisha, an older woman. An Asian-American Reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The problem with reenacting a blackface minstrel show, even to make a political point, is that on some level, it is still a blackface minstrel show. Ben Vereen, Ronald Reagan and the travesty of blackface, potently remembered 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z In nonliterate societies, minstrels occupy a place of power, both as guards of the people’s history and remodelers of the myths they tell. A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Foster wrote "My Old Kentucky Home" for overtly racist blackface minstrel shows, where performers included it in demeaning enactments of racial difference from a white supremacist perspective. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Dane Laffrey’s resourceful set — a raised wooden platform flanked, courtroom-style, by simple chairs — effectively evokes a minstrel stage, soapbox and gallows at once. ‘Parade’ Review: The Trial and Tragedy of Leo Frank 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, US Arab comic Dean Obeidallah compared Baron Cohen's portrayal to blackface portrayals of African Americans by white actors, labelling The Dictator "a modern-day minstrel show". Sacha Baron Cohen criticised over 'negative stereotypes' of Arabs 2012-05-17T11:19:56Z There are plenty of distractions for all ages with workshops, minstrels, a 72-hour "impossible lecture" and art, with live graffiti plus installations. Clubs picks of the week 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z "Swanee River", a minstrel from the Deep South, and "Unchain My Heart", first recorded by Ray Charles and then by Joe Cocker, followed. Hugh Laurie, Dr John, Trombone Shorty in New Orleans tribute 2012-07-10T13:38:34Z Obama is truly the minstrel when he goes into his phony black cadence when he is in front of a black audience. Cain compares himself to Clarence Thomas 2011-11-05T02:16:00Z In a response video posted to YouTube, Akilah Hughes called Jones’ character “a minstrel show… the loud, screaming thing in the room.” The new “Ghostbusters” and race: Why it matters that Leslie Jones isn’t playing one of the scientists 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z There's that, and the fact that he looks massively uncomfortable as the white guests cheer at a queasy minstrel show staged at Lift's insistence. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z In addition to singing Irish drinking songs and funny ballads, he, like many early stars, recorded minstrel songs. Throwback tunes: Reissues from Frenchmen, Argentines, Brits, lumberjacks and Vaudevillians 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “The minstrel shows played in places where there weren’t a lot of African Americans, and that’s what people thought they were. That has followed us for years.” Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z And yet, I bet that even today, most Black Americans have witnessed or participated in a minstrel show of some sort — a performance of Blackness that simplifies and debases it. Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Love interest is offered by Caractacus's daughter Eigen and the minstrel Orbin, while set pieces for the Arch Druid and his followers provide a hint of pagan exoticism, complete with bare-bosomed maidens. Caractacus ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:08Z Another Facebook group, Artists Against The Mikado, was “dedicated to the controversial idea that minstrel shows where white people dress up as fake Japanese is a little out of date.” Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z June 25-26 Theatre, knightly combat, puppetry, crafts, archery, minstrels, food at living history village, period costume rental available, noon-5 p.m.; Summer Guide | June 2016 events around Seattle 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They are minstrels, and they stage a capsule history of minstrelsy in popular entertainment. Ulysses Jenkins: Journeys of a Video Griot 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In this solo show, Abel Green, an African-American man, surveys five different existences — from minstrel to mortgage broker. Theater Listings for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Blackface performances date back to minstrel shows of the 1800s, in which performers darkened their faces to create bigoted caricatures of Black people. Southern Baptists expel Oklahoma church after pastor defends his blackface and Native caricatures 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z But Splash Mountain is still a ride in which the most popular song, “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” has connections to minstrel shows. Splash Mountain closing day: Why Disneyland's long goodbye is long overdue 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The dolls are thought to date back to the minstrel entertainment shows, when typically white actors painted their faces black and depicted negative stereotypes of black people. Golly doll pub managers give voluntary police interview 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The dolls are thought to date back to the medieval minstrel entertainment shows, when typically white actors painted their faces black and depicted negative stereotypes of black people. Grays pub that displayed golly dolls closes after supplier boycott 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The dolls are based on 18th Century minstrels and are regarded as racist caricatures. What led to a police probe over golly dolls in a pub in Essex? 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The rebirth extends the circus’ long run that dates back to a time before automobiles, airplanes or movies, when Ulysses S. Grant was president and minstrel shows were popular entertainment. Reborn Ringling Bros. circus to leap on tour — minus animals 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes they danced outside theaters where minstrel shows were performed. Perspective | For a brief time before his fame, ‘Bojangles’ Robinson danced in D.C. 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z In 1860, the painting was displayed in Troy, N.Y., under the title “My Old Kentucky Home,” a reference to the Stephen Foster blackface minstrel hit. How an abolitionist painting set in D.C. became proslavery propaganda 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z During the Middle Ages, minstrels were retained by royal courts to provide pleasant atmosphere. Why mood music playlists are the soundtrack to anxious times 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z I wanted Walker nowhere near the Senate; but he's been exploited by those who would have attended Jim Crow minstrel performances in 1950s America. A prayer before dying: On the Republican Party's terminal illness 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z And the media was fine going along with them: After all, this was a time when the only Black faces on TV were portrayed as criminals, minstrels or buffoons. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Her conversations with Vaudeville hallucinations are unfortunately retro — the main guy, the Thalidomide Kid, has his disabilities played for laughs; two characters dress up as blackface minstrels. Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel — two, actually. And they're almost perfect 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Blackface is an American theatrical minstrel practice that dates to the mid to late 1800s, in which White traveling musicians painted their faces black and for comic effect mimicked the singing and dancing of slaves. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z These non-Black people speak it as a form of entertainment, “giving them a Black caricature in a way, kind of like a minstrel show,” Monroe said. Black English is being misidentified as Gen Z lingo, speakers say 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The practice has a long, complicated history in theater, stretching from the medieval period to Shakespeare to American minstrel shows. American soprano withdraws from Italian festival that used blackface 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z And the media just went along with them: The only Black faces on TV were criminals, minstrels or buffoons. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z At the start of this rambunctious 90-minute production, two Black performers who are well-versed in minstrel shtick are hoping a white audience will be delighted enough by their routines to toss them some quarters. Review: The high-octane 'Tambo & Bones' scrutinizes the inescapable legacy of minstrelsy 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In borrowing the novel’s celebrity while also changing the story’s terms, Foster would give his minstrel show’s viewers an unsavable Tom, who in the song dies wishing he could return to the plantation. Review | The complicated story behind the Kentucky Derby’s opening song 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z According to Fields, the conflict between her and Staten festered after she questioned choreography evoking a minstrel show, which was not explicitly mentioned in the script. An allegation and a cancellation: How Arena Stage’s big show fell apart 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z His first taste of professional experience came with a barnstorming team that traveled with a carnival and minstrel show. Chet Brewer's best delivery was helping Black players reach the major leagues 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z A craze for blackface minstrel shows reflected other values of northern white workers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In rebellion against their playwright, Tambo and Bones drag the person responsible for placing them in this nutty minstrel show onto the stage and attack him. Review: The high-octane 'Tambo & Bones' scrutinizes the inescapable legacy of minstrelsy 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z What this quote does not disclose is that Douglass names Kentucky’s state song alongside other sad minstrel tunes, arguing for abolitionists to surprise themselves and enlist such songs for the cause. Review | The complicated story behind the Kentucky Derby’s opening song 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z They also sent roving minstrels to carry their songs to courts. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An upstate New York public school chose not to include "Jingle Bells" in its repertoire of Christmas songs after linking the tune’s origins to 19th century minstrel shows, according to a local report. New York school cites 19th century reason for banning 'Jingle Bells' over Christmas 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z By the mid-1830s, minstrel shows, which featured white men with blackened faces playing stereotyped black characters, had become one of the most popular forms of northern urban entertainment, especially for white male workers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Tambo and Bones have moved from the minstrel past to the more recent hip-hop present. Review: The high-octane 'Tambo & Bones' scrutinizes the inescapable legacy of minstrelsy 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Bingham is also clear that Douglass “despised blackface minstrels, calling them ‘the filthy scum of white society who’ denigrated his race for profit even as they stole ‘from us a complexion denied them by nature.’ Review | The complicated story behind the Kentucky Derby’s opening song 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The article, written by Boston University professor Kyna Hamill, documents an 1857 performance of “Jingle Bells” at a minstrel show “in which white actors performed in blackface,” the online report noted. No bells will jingle for primary students in Rochester suburb in ‘diversity’ push 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z She wrote that the first performance of "Jingle Bells" in public may have been in Boston in 1857 during a minstrel show, where White performers wore blackface. New York school cites 19th century reason for banning 'Jingle Bells' over Christmas 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Classic American melodies such as “Swanee River,” “Jimmy Crack Corn,” “Oh! Susannah,” and “Dixie” all had their origins on the minstrel stage. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Nonfiction: “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,” by Hanif Abdurraqib, makes powerful observations about race through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. The Latest Covid Surge 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z That included outcry from members of the Black community who feared it would strike viewers as a minstrel show and feuds between some of the regular dancers on the program. Perspective | ‘Teenarama’ was a dance show for D.C.’s Black teens. Now it’s a musical. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z According to the report, Mr. Tappon and others cited a 2017 article in the academic journal “Theatre Survey” which places the origin of “Jingle Bells” in minstrel shows either in Medford, Massachusetts, or Savannah, Georgia. No bells will jingle for primary students in Rochester suburb in ‘diversity’ push 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Payment imagined a stadium full of fans implored to act as if performing a minstrel show. The ‘tomahawk chop’ lives on in Atlanta. Now it has the World Series spotlight. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The typical minstrel show featured clownish plantation characters such as Bones and Tambo, whose songs and jokes made fun of Mr. Interlocutor, a pompous straight man. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z What followed was unsurprising to those familiar with the racist history of minstrel entertainment, as well as the present-day tendency toward so-called wokeness in higher education: Upset students complained, including to the composition department. Opinion | A blackface ‘Othello’ and the broken debate over cancel culture 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z She said she gets the sense that some people would prefer her to fit into a minstrel stereotype. Foraging, gardening, joy — how two Black plant influencers use their platforms 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The title references a processional dance that originated on Southern plantations during the slavery era and would later be parodied by white performers in minstrel shows. Artist Alison Saar on why she gives power to the Black female body 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” was written in 1903 and has a history of performances in minstrel shows with musicians often in blackface. Texas NAACP files federal complaint over “The Eyes of Texas” 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Depicting a proslavery version of plantation life, minstrel shows celebrated the ideology of President Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party and played a conspicuous part in its campaign events. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The figures’ bulging eyes and distorted features suggested that minstrel physiognomy was inescapable even for those Black subjects who were not born into the New World. The Black Artists Leaving America 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z They’re based on a story book character called Golliwog, a Black minstrel doll. Why finding mammy dolls at the Rose Bowl Flea Market was an unwanted reminder of racism 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z This shuffle of identities is insouciantly performed as a minstrel carnival. Review: L.A. theater is back with a boundary-breaking 'Octoroon' outdoors at the Fountain 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z White students at the university, which remained segregated until 1956, regularly performed the anthem at blackface minstrel shows that continued until the mid-1960s. University of Texas Faces New Outcry Over Old Song With Minstrel Roots 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Like western bragging and theater riots, the minstrel show appealed to American workers who cherished liberty and equality but worried about preserving them in a topsy-turvy world. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z By then, the now-55-year-old artist had become known for sorting clusters of googly eyes and thick lips into minimalist grids; paintings that slyly located the roots of Western abstraction in minstrel caricature. The Black Artists Leaving America 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z At auditions, it soon felt as if I was doing a version of a minstrel show — and for good reason. Opinion | Hank Azaria apologized for playing Apu on ‘The Simpsons.’ I accept. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z In March, Texas released a report on “The Eyes of Texas,” finding that the song’s first public performances did occur in a minstrel show with performers likely wearing blackface. Texas to require Longhorn Band to play ‘The Eyes of Texas’ 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The earliest form of burlesque in the city goes back at least to September 1868, when Lydia Thompson & the British Blondes melded aspects of “leg shows” and minstrel shows for a bustling audience. What Is Life Without Burlesque? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z I was raised of course to imagine the minstrel show as only shameful. Hanif Abdurraqib: ‘I was fascinated by who got to define shame’ 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Because he was so successful his "Jim Crow" persona was adopted by other white race minstrels. GOP dreams of a return to Jim Crow — and not just through racist voting laws 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z "Dumbo," made in 1941, features a group of crows who "pay homage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans." Disney+ removes access to classics like 'Dumbo,' 'Peter Pan' for kids under 7 over 'racist' stereotypes 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z In college, he wrote a minstrel show and performed it in blackface. Some Dr. Seuss books with racist imagery will go out of print 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” was routinely performed by musicians in blackface at minstrel shows. UT president calls emails defending school song ‘extremist’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” was routinely performed by musicians in blackface at minstrel shows. UT president calls emails defending school song ‘extremist’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z All because they refused to sing a song that was historically performed at minstrel shows that featured performers in blackface and was said to be inspired by a quote by Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Longhorns supporters threaten university, players over 'Eyes of Texas' controversy 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Decades ago, students participated in mock slave auctions and blackface minstrel shows. Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing ‘Dixie’ 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The name itself was taken from a character from minstrel shows in the 1800s that mocked African-Americans. Aunt Jemima to rebrand as Pearl Milling Company this summer 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Jim Crow laws, named after an offensive minstrel caricature, were a collection of 19th-century state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation and relegated Black people to the bottom of the economic order. The Power of Social Justice Movements 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Klan members also dressed as jokers and even minstrels to mock their victims, says Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Decoding the hate symbols seen at the Capitol insurrection 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “We are entering a time where all of these will be seen like minstrel shows,” she said, “like horrible, outdated racist things, and people will be very confused as to why they lasted so long.” For Opponents of Native American Nicknames, 2020 Has Brought Hope 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z “Again, it’s their club, and I’m just a roving minstrel.” Joseph DiGenova resigns from Gridiron Club after saying fired cybersecurity official should be ‘taken out and shot’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The players partnered up for the cakewalk, like minstrels always did, or so Sissy had been told by old folks that had seen them years ago; only these minstrels hadn’t blacked up right. On a Summer Night in Selma, an Eerie Carnival Comes to Town 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z An hour of browsing through the minstrel music will shine a direct beam on sinister tropes and casual references to nooses and lynching that typified the so-called blackface music of the period. Meet the guardians of the world's earliest musical recordings 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “There were very few books about African Americans or people of color, in general. If there was an image, it was a stereotype, a minstrel image.” Artist Howardena Pindell on understanding 'the trauma of racism' 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z "He wasn't a minstrel. He's a national treasure, no question about it - he was a respected figure," he says. Who was the real 'Prince Monolulu'? 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z He was an old man with years of sorrow behind him, a homeless street performer who had once been a dancer “at minstrel shows and county fairs throughout the South.” Jerry Jeff Walker, Texas troubadour who wrote ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ dies at 78 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The song was routinely performed by musicians in blackface at minstrel shows. Conflict raging over ‘The Eyes of Texas’ school song 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z This, then, is a highly self-aware subset of racial impostors in a long line of impostors dating back to blackface minstrels. Opinion: What’s going on with all the white scholars who try to pass as Black? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But there were also disturbing titles like “Bob Hart’s Plantation Songster” by the White minstrel performer James B. Sutherland, filed in 1862. Cascade of title pages, and one squashed fly, help mark 150 years of the U.S. Copyright Office 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The reference to minstrel shows – in which people wore black-face to imitate African Americans in song and dance numbers and variety acts – provided her statement with an uncomfortable tone. 'Modern-day minstrel show' insult of RNC speakers draws harsh reaction to MSNBC guest host 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z She said Spike Lee was as an important influence, in particular his “Bamboozled,” a 2000 satire about a modern televised minstrel show. Pledging to Tell More Inclusive Stories, MGM Remakes Orion Pictures 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The 1913 film “Lime Kiln Club Field Day” features the Black minstrel performer Bert Williams wearing blackface makeup, and complicates our understanding of the art form. Opinion | The Problem With ‘Anti-Racist’ Movie Lists 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas,” a campus anthem with minstrel roots that student-athletes want abolished. University of Texas Won’t Drop Song With Racist History 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Harris’ examination of American racism past, present and future unfolds while two characters are trapped in a minstrel show. Center Theatre Group, looking to a post-pandemic future, picks a Dave Harris play 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z As “Newsbusters” contributing editor Mark Finkelstein noted, Cross effectively labeled Sen. Tim Scott and football great Herschel Walker – among others – as “minstrels,” which would almost imply that they were merely pretending to be African American. 'Modern-day minstrel show' insult of RNC speakers draws harsh reaction to MSNBC guest host 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z “The Eyes of Texas” has long been criticized for its connection to minstrel shows with characters in blackface in the early 1900s. Texas keeps ‘The Eyes of Texas’ despite athlete demands 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Though the lyrics do not seem inherently racist — they mean to poke fun at a past school president — the song was originally performed by white students in blackface as part of a campus minstrel show. What's in a nickname, mascot or sports tradition? Sometimes tinges of racism 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Blackface as entertainment emerged from 19th-century minstrel shows that featured white actors in dark makeup, playing characters who embodied stereotypical depictions of African Americans. Analysis | Blackface has long been an issue in comedy. Look no further than ‘Saturday Night Live’ for proof. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The brand got its name from the minstrel song “Old Aunt Jemima,” which was composed by African American comedian and performer Billy Kersands. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The character is an African American woman who was originally dressed as a minstrel show performer. Uncle Ben's rice firm to scrap brand image of black farmer 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z For over 130 years, the brand's logo has featured a black woman named after a character from minstrel shows in the 1800s that mocked African-Americans. Quaker Oats acknowledges 'racial stereotype' 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Early Aunt Jemima logos featured various crude renderings of a dark-skinned woman wearing a headscarf, the design clearly influenced by minstrel shows, where white-skinned actors would portray stereotyped black people. Aunt Jemima to change name and logo due to racial stereotyping 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “Gather the Rose of love whilest yet is time,” a minstrel sings - and all the birds echo his song. Top 10 books about witch-hunts | Eleanor Porter 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The logo of the brand features an African American woman named after a character from minstrel shows from the 19th century. PepsiCo's Aunt Jemima brand to change name, logo: NBC News 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z They also said the school should stop using “The Eyes of Texas,” which has long been criticized for its connection to minstrel shows with characters in blackface in the early 1900s. Texas president to meet with students on athletes’ demands 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Its first performance was around 1903, by a university quartet at a minstrel show at the Hancock Opera House in Austin, the professor said. Texas Football Players Call on University to Drop a Song Steeped in Racist History 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Organizer Rashelle Monet wrote in the petition that “Sambo” was commonly used as “an archetypal degrading character in literature and minstrel shows.” Santa Barbara restaurant drops name many considered racist 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Alas, the first pop music stars from the Lower East Side were blackface minstrels. The Lower East Side in 8 Songs 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z “But this industry will make you dance the minstrel salsa dance or the minstrel cumbia dance,” he added, in reference to the tenor of Latino-themed titles that are deemed palatable to wide audiences. 'American Dirt' was supposed to be a publishing triumph. What went wrong? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The minstrel song of the same name was adopted as a kind anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War. ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road? 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The university acknowledges on its website that the song was “first sung at a minstrel show and taken indirectly from a Robert E. Lee quote, contextual elements that many people find offensive.” Texas Football Players Call on University to Drop a Song Steeped in Racist History 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z After Lizzo performed on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, he fired off a handful of tweets also accusing the singer of performing “minstrel” shows for white audiences and promoting bad behavior to young girls. Lizzo fires back at author who said her claim to fame is being obese: ‘Keep my name out ya mouth’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z In the first half of the 20th century, Jewish immigrants and their children used popular music, including minstrel songs and blackface, as a way up and out of the neighborhood. The Lower East Side in 8 Songs 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z However, he walked back his remarks on Wednesday, amending his argument to say his real gripe with the pop star is her behavior, calling the performer a “minstrel show.” Lizzo bashes author’s claim that she’s only popular due to 'obesity epidemic': 'Keep my name out ya mouth' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Byrd’s references, in choreography and in conversation, are all over the place, Spectrum dancer Nia-Amina Minor said: Balanchine ballets, old films with minstrel scenes, Bob Fosse, Paula Kelly, the Lindy Hop. The beloved ‘Harlem Nutcracker’ bankrupted choreographer Donald Byrd’s earlier company. Two decades later, he’s bringing it back. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z As an example, she mentioned seeing minstrel shows at the theater as a girl in Detroit. Ellen Burstyn talks women in film, Pacino interview, #MeToo 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Lewis was, he said, “one of the very, very few living characters who intrigued me”, and after telling his story, he moved on: to Sonny Liston, Dean Martin, blackface minstrel Emmett Miller, Arnold Rothstein. Nick Tosches: the writer who made his prose rock and roll 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z His first hit, “Swanee,” was a latter-day minstrel song Al Jolson sang in blackface. The Lower East Side in 8 Songs 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z When minstrel shows were the thing — white men in blackface mimicking African dance moves — Barnum got into the business. Review | P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z In February, Gucci was forced to withdraw a jumper after critics said it resembled a blackface minstrel. Model stages silent protest on Gucci catwalk 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The composer of “O Canada,” the national anthem, Calixa Lavallée, spent much of his early career performing in blackface in minstrel troupes in Canada and the United States. ‘This thing is a wildfire’: Trudeau apologizes again as campaign reels from racist makeup revelations 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In 19th century U.S., performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice popularized minstrel shows by wearing blackface and adopting what he thought was African American vernacular. AP Explains: Brownface part of racist face makeup history 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The scandal is similar to cases in the United States of politicians or other public figures donning blackface, a practice that dates back to 19th century minstrel shows that caricatured slaves. Factbox: Canada's Trudeau in brownface scandal that has echoes in U.S. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In the past, blackface was used in minstrel shows, which demeaned members of the African-American community by playing on racist stereotypes. Justin Trudeau apologizes for 2001 photo showing him in brownface: "I should have known better" 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The caption described the group as “minstrels,” a term frequently used for white actors who wore blackface. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey admits she wore blackface in racist skit after recording surfaces 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z American minstrels traveled often to Canada, and homegrown troupes also sprung up. ‘This thing is a wildfire’: Trudeau apologizes again as campaign reels from racist makeup revelations 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The 1967 yearbook photo shows five members with black masks portraying “minstrels” in a rush skit. Alabama governor apologizes for wearing blackface in college 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z “I started listening and watching, especially the stuff he took from minstrel shows,” he said. The Survival of Iggy Pop 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Even as Barnum was exhibiting his Tom Thumb, another dwarf called Tom Thumb was making the rounds; and, in the mid-nineteenth century, minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment. What P. T. Barnum Understood About America 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Crowds loved the mix of smutty and sentimental songs, as well as slapstick, circus performers and black face minstrels. Theme parks, pubs and 'human zoos': how the Victorians invented leisure 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z A man who dressed as a black and white minstrel and directed a "racist" song at a black colleague has had his racial harassment conviction quashed. Minstrel singer wins race case appeal 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But there were also the instruments we associate more closely with a “minstrel” band—fiddles and banjos. Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The notorious Black Codes came after the war, followed by Jim Crow laws, named for a racist 19th-century minstrel character who wore blackface. Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’ 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Black writers and artists from the Harlem Renaissance voiced their concerns about the distortion of African cultures in some modernist artworks, and wrote at length about the demeaning caricatures of black identity in minstrel shows. Why we need to pause before claiming cultural appropriation | Ash Sarkar 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The character he performed – a limping, shuffling old black field-hand in jet black grease paint made from burnt cork – would ossify as the archetypal blackface minstrel. 'Reasserting white power': behind the psychosis that gave rise to blackface 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He remembered a mayor who did a summer minstrel show wearing striped pants, a plaid blazer and blackface. The keeper of the secret 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Then she moved to a chair, picked up her old minstrel banjo, and sat quite upright, tuning it. Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z At the University of the District of Columbia last week, a panel of experts looked beneath the shoe-polished skin and minstrel buffoonery to reveal a mix of ignorance and racism. Perspective | Figuring out what’s behind the use of blackface could depend on who you ask 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The university band no longer plays “Dixie,” a Southern folk song with minstrel roots, at sporting events. Kneeling During the Anthem at Ole Miss: ‘I Needed to Stand Up for My Rights’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Giddens includes some minstrel banjo tunes on this record, pointedly reclaiming their roots. Rhiannon Giddens: ‘I see this album as part of a movement to reclaim black female history’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Northam denied appearing in the photo but admitted to dressing that year in blackface, which traces its history to 19th-century minstrel shows that mocked African-Americans and is seen as offensive by many Americans. Virginia Republicans want Democrat's sex assault accusers to testify 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z I am looking at a gallery of photos of him as I write, and he really did possess a kind of abstracted, animal beauty — half minstrel in a Renaissance portrait, half friendly dog. Why Peter Tork, the Stealth Monkee, was my favorite 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z And she points out that the patterns established in 19th-century minstrel shows continue today, even without the blackface. Perspective | Figuring out what’s behind the use of blackface could depend on who you ask 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The statement says Zulu parade costumes bear no resemblance to those worn by “blackface” minstrel performers at the turn of the century. Club: Mardi Gras tradition is not the same as blackface 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It became claimed by white musicians as their own, and was played often in blackface minstrel shows in the mid 19th-century US. Rhiannon Giddens: ‘I see this album as part of a movement to reclaim black female history’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z “The racist and severely damaging ‘Jim Crow laws’ received its name from the BLackface minstrel movement of the 19th century and proceeds to cause pain to this day.” Nick Cannon rips comedians for blackface controversy while addressing former whiteface backlash 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Blackface traces its history to 19th-century minstrel shows that mocked African-Americans, and is seen as offensive by many Americans - though its use continued in U.S. popular culture through to the early 21st century. Virginia political crisis in stalemate after impeachment threat 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Zulu parade costumes bear no resemblance to the costumes worn by ‘blackface’ minstrel performers at the turn of the century.” Perspective | Figuring out what’s behind the use of blackface could depend on who you ask 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z I was born in 1940 in Hannibal, Mo. In the 1940s and early 1950s, minstrel shows, including blackface, were common. Opinion | Apologies for blackface and a chance to change 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z She added that minstrel shows and blackface performances both reinforced and popularized the “stereotype of the dimwitted slave who was happy to be in the South.” Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z For many people of color, every new photo of someone in blackface is a fresh slap, as is casual public debate about blackface and minstrel shows. Northam blackface scandal forces Virginians to talk about what redemption for racism should look like 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Will yet more photos emerge of rowdy blackface frat parties and politicians’ youthful participation in amateur minstrel shows? Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He said he learned about the history of minstrel shows, where white people mocked black people “and exaggerated their characteristics and mannerisms.” Va. Gov. Ralph Northam says he wants to focus rest of his term on racial equity 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Yearbook pages from another fraternity in the 1960s include references to minstrel shows as well as photos of men in blackface. Universities in Maryland reckon with past yearbook photos 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z “People have perpetuated blackface because we don’t teach minstrel history. If these people had ever been exposed to it in a safe classroom environment, they would know better.” Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He found that blackface had become much rarer by the 1960s, and when it did show up, it was in photographs of private fraternity parties rather than at campuswide public events like minstrel shows. Beyond College Campuses and Public Scandals, a Racist Tradition Lingers 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And there is no evidence that any of these politicians spoke out against amateur blackface minstrel shows within their organizations. Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The book looks like a minstrel convention — filled with an array of white men in blackface a few months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Perspective | Virginia’s descent from darling to dumpster fire leaves residents reeling 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z With ugly, exaggerated features, and wearing tattered clothes, these “minstrels” made fun of enslaved Africans as superstitious, hypersexual and cowardly, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Blackface scandals highlight U.S.'s troubled racial past - and present 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z As the 19th century wore on, the country swooned over minstrel and vaudeville productions, which often used burnt cork or shoe polish to darken performers’ faces. Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In a fiery speech delivered Thursday at Virginia Union University, Sharpton said of Northam: “I’m not going to be your minstrel!” The Latest: Sharpton calls on Northam, Herring to resign 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z At the Gridiron Club, Theodore Roosevelt beamed when Lew Dockstader, an Elks minstrel celebrity, shuffled onstage in blackface impersonating an African American from Tuskegee University. Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In 1848, he called blackface minstrel performers “the filthy scum of white society” in the North Star newspaper. Ralph Northam-Mark Herring blackface scandal shines spotlight on Hollywood 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The name of the minstrel genre’s most famous character, “Jim Crow,” applied to laws adopted by U.S. states that segregated blacks and whites and remained on the books through the mid-20th century. Blackface scandals highlight U.S.'s troubled racial past - and present 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Twenty years after demonstrators marched against segregation, Northam should have known there’s nothing innocent about mimicking minstrel show entertainers who artificially darkened their skin to depict stereotypical images of black life. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Sharpton noted that blackface has always been demeaning to African-Americans, “mocking us, making us minstrels!” The Latest: Sharpton calls on Northam, Herring to resign 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z A child might be required to play a minstrel in school, where curriculums derived from state guides featured plays and music selected by the Works Progress Administration. Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date to 19th-century “minstrel” shows in which white performers covered their faces in black grease paint to caricature slaves. Virginia governor's future in limbo amid outcry over racist photo 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z It was only after his fame reached international proportions that he was allowed to tour with an all-white minstrel troupe and to perform without blackface. AP Explains: Racist history of blackface began in the 1830s 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z A 1982 profile of Panhandle Sheriff Rufe Jordan by Texas Monthly Reporter fondly recalled when he would put on black face to sing Irish songs in the Pampa Lions Club minstrel show. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The blackface practice dates back to 19th century minstrel shows that caricatured slaves. Factbox: Virginia governor latest to feel consequences of blackface... 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z When amateur minstrel George H. O’Connor died in 1946, his obituary in the New York Times called him the “Minstrel to Presidents.” Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date back to 19th-century minstrel shows, when white actors covered themselves in black grease paint to caricature slaves. Virginia lawmakers meet; governor battles fallout from racist photo 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date to minstrel shows in the 19th century, when white actors covered themselves in black greasepaint to portray African Americans in a cartoonish, dehumanizing way. Gov. Ralph Northam admits he was in 1984 yearbook photo showing figures in blackface, KKK hood 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The origins of blackface date to minstrel shows from the 19th century, when white actors covered themselves in black grease paint to portray African Americans in a cartoonish, dehumanizing way. Virginia governor's medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface and a KKK robe 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “It’s been a mixture of hymns and blues and minstrel songs and work songs and sentimental songs and old work songs from the British Isles,” Duncan said. Ken Burns turns to 'Country Music' for his next PBS docuseries 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z As late as 1974, the annual Charlottesville Lions Club minstrel show was still so popular, it was recommended in travel guidebooks. Perspective | Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The photographs evoked an ugly history of white people blackening their faces to mock African-Americans in minstrel shows and movies. Florida Secretary of State Resigns After Blackface Photos Surface 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The minstrel shows put forth racist notions of African Americans as primitive, childish and inferior. Gov. Ralph Northam admits he was in 1984 yearbook photo showing figures in blackface, KKK hood 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The minstrel shows put forth racist notions of African Americans as primitive and inferior. Virginia governor's medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface and a KKK robe 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Blackface was used in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring white performers portraying African-Americans, often in a degrading manner, and is considered to be racist and offensive. Florida's secretary of state resigns after blackface photo surfaces 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z She also hosted a segment featuring two black panelists, Roland Martin and Amy Holmes, who explained the history of blackface, a demeaning practice with a history going back to 19th-century minstrel shows. It’s Final: Megyn Kelly and NBC Part Ways. And She Will Be Paid in Full. 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Critics accused her of ignoring the ugly history of minstrel shows and movies in which whites applied blackface to mock blacks. NBC News, Megyn Kelly reach separation agreement 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Dutch label Viktor & Rolf covered white models in black body and face paint, creating a look that called to mind a high-fashion minstrel show. Perspective | Seriously, Prada, what were you thinking?: Why the fashion industry keeps bumbling into racist imagery 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z We listeners gaped at commissioned portraits of aproned servants and glee club minstrels with blackened faces and brittle smiles. Can exposing Americans to its savage, racist history save Charlottesville? | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Her peer-reviewed paper found that the song was originally performed in blackface in a minstrel show as One Horse Open Sleigh in Boston in September 1857. Should we stop listening to these Christmas songs? 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z She sees it as part of a racist tradition dating back to the minstrel shows of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. 'The blackface scandal that rocked my campus' 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z To compensate, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, a teacher who would later become the president of Grambling, took students out to perform minstrel shows for wealthy white people in neighboring towns. A College Degree, More than Fifteen Years in the Making 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In its worst bits, Kondabolu’s documentary compares Apu to a blackface minstrel show, as if there was no difference between the experience of black Americans and that of South Asian immigrants then or now. Don't get rid of Apu. He's a hero to many of us | Bhaskar Sunkara 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z "The minstrel tradition, the blackface tradition in America is dead as a doornail." Guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show: “The blackface tradition in America is dead as a doo... 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, some Florida voters received a robocall appearing to mock Gillum, featuring a voice claiming to be the nominee, speaking in a demeaning minstrel dialect that sounds nothing like him. Final stretch of campaigns dominated by race 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Blackface minstrel shows were, she says, a way of cementing a culture of white supremacy and racial hierarchy. 'The blackface scandal that rocked my campus' 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Yesterday, Kelly's guests Martin and Holmes made solid — and apparently necessary — points about America's history of blackface, minstrel shows and race. It’s time for NBC to fire Megyn Kelly 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Florida voters who receive the call, audio of which was obtained by HuffPost, hear a man speaking in a minstrel dialect who identifies himself as the African-American politician. White supremacist and anti-Semitic outlet broadcasts racist robocalls against Andrew Gillum — a... 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z “What I saw was a minstrel show today — him in front of all these white people — mostly white people — embarrassing himself,” Mr. Lemon said. Don Lemon mocks Kanye West for Donald Trump ‘minstrel show’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The "angry black woman" trope has its roots in 19th Century America, when minstrel shows, which involved comic skits and variety acts, mocking African Americans became popular. Serena Williams and 'angry black women' 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The automated calls were narrated by someone speaking in an exaggerated minstrel dialect who was pretending to be Gillum, with junglelike sounds in the background. GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z In the recorded calls, someone falsely identifying himself as Andrew Gillum speaks in a racist, old-time minstrel dialect while asking voters for their support. Racist calls mock Florida’s black Democratic candidate 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Someone falsely identifies themselves as Andrew Gillum in the recorded calls and speaks in a racist, old-time minstrel dialect while asking voters for their support. Racist calls mock Florida’s black Democratic candidate 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z He continued the minstrel analogy by saying that he saw “the president of the United States exploiting him.” Don Lemon mocks Kanye West for Donald Trump ‘minstrel show’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “It was written as what they called a walk-around tune … for a minstrel show. It was like a tune between acts,” said Horton. Away, away: Alabama high school won’t play ‘Dixie’ any more 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z SAT-SUN Theatre, knightly combat, puppetry, crafts, archery, minstrels, craft shops and demonstrations, medieval clothing to buy or rent, lunch available, in the style of an English village in 1376, noon-5 p.m. Community calendar: State fairs, Garlic Fest, Bremerton Blackberry Festival and more 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z By far my favorite sculpture was a band of minstrels. An Unmissable Summer Holiday in the Baltics 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “When you look into the minstrel band in the US and you see banjo, fiddle and tambourine, you might think they’re all ‘white’ instruments. 'White people are so fragile, bless 'em' … meet Rhiannon Giddens, banjo warrior 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The first is a minstrel show in which the five black actors play the roles they said they were used to getting — drug addict, criminal — with a kind of Brechtian awkwardness. Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “Dixie” celebrates life in the old South and originated in blackface minstrel shows. Official: Playing ‘Dixie’ during fireworks show an oversight 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z At one point, the brave ragtag Staten Islanders are being systematically hunted by heavily armed white gunmen wearing KKK hoods or Nazi coats and masks that look like blackface and minstrel shows. Film Review: ‘The First Purge’ is depressingly prescient 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z “Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private ‘songversations.’ California Inc.: Will Comcast raise stakes in battle for Fox? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The minstrel era is a controversial chapter in U.S. entertainment culture, with songs meant to mock black people. This mysterious recording was the missing musical link to an era when racism was the tune 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Sorry, those little white gloves have their root in minstrel shows, intensely racist vaudeville acts whose repercussions are still seen in today’s media. Funny memes often come from dark places — remember that before you make your own 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Foster was a Pittsburgh native known for his minstrel music. ‘Oh! Susanna’ songwriter’s statue removed amid criticism 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Of course, Mac also reminded us that Gilbert and Sullivan did their own reconstructing of minstrel songs. I survived 24 hours of Taylor Mac: a necessary 246-song attack on the heteronormative narrative 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z China’s 55 officially designated minorities are today still depicted in the state’s propaganda in terms remarkably like black people in the minstrel shows that were once popular in the West. China portrays racism as a Western problem 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “Haul the Woodpile Down,” he realized, was a sonic time capsule, a musical missing link from the minstrel shows that dominated the 1800s before fading near the turn of the century. This mysterious recording was the missing musical link to an era when racism was the tune 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But others defended the school, saying that the black-painted faces don’t carry the sort of racist implication they would in the United States, where blackface was a staple of racist minstrel shows. Use of blackface in Brazil Carnival parade sparks debate 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Talking to Japanese media, he said the first minstrel shows were brought to the country from the US in the 19th Century. Controversy over Japan blackface comedy 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z They eschewed the popular style of antebellum minstrel songs, with their long verses and short refrains—think “Oh, Susannah” or “Camptown Races.” Where Wall Street Meets Broadway 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Curiously absent from the movie’s relentless feel-good offensive are any references to, say, the blackface minstrel acts that Barnum produced. 'The Greatest Showman' turns Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum into a hero, and cons the audience in the process 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “Back then, the minstrels were really the newsmen of the day,” he pointed out. Connecticut town experiences Old English Christmas music 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z For instance, in one section there’s a wrestling bout between the queer poet Walt Whitman and Stephen Foster, who wrote American minstrel songs including Camptown Races. Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Century-old vaudeville and minstrel posters plaster walls in the light booth. Old Soldiers’ Homes, Left to Just Fade Away 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Others say it shows Foster drew inspiration from black spirituals and other music in crafting his minstrel songs. Pittsburgh mural artist painting over Stephen Foster mural 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Some would say black reaction gifs on white Twitter feeds are no better than the minstrel shows of yore; others might say they’re a celebration of African American culture, or at the very least neutral. Opinion | What white people missed about FaceApp’s ‘blackface’ filters 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The fraternal organization, Improved Order of Red Men, would put on a minstrel show each year. New group starts conversation on race in New Hampshire 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z “We have all these minstrel songs in the show,” Mac says. Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z SAT Tournaments, Artisan’s Village blacksmiths, potters, scribes, and cooks, bards and minstrels, food vendors, Merchants Row, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The seventh, the site of the blackface minstrel shows. Walking Jesus’ walk, with a modern twist this Easter season 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Thankfully, it’s a rare in-person performance today that features a white actor made up as a minstrel. Opinion | What white people missed about FaceApp’s ‘blackface’ filters 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z “Sawmill” and “Wax Wings” close out this rather fine album from a truly talented minstrel. Dashboard Confessional, Nina Massara among those releasing new music 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Like Confederate statues, racist minstrel songs are evidence of the oppression embedded in American culture which A 24-Decade History roots out and examines. Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Family lore suggests Joel Sweeney often would stay at the cabin with his cousin when he returned from his tours as a minstrel in the 1850s. Cabin known for its tie to ‘Elvis Presley’ of mid-1800s 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z After all, there was a time when black minstrel acts were the only black entertainment seen inside the White House. ‘The Obamas came from a place we all came from’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Excluded from the exhibit are minstrel shows and vaudeville performances done in blackface. ‘Art of American Dance’ at Crystal Bridges Museum 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z I was 17 when the last of the touring blackface minstrel shows finally disappeared, having clung on for a decade performing in fading ballrooms on the decaying piers of Britain’s seaside towns. The reality of being black in today’s Britain | David Olusoga 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Early on, a “hip-hop chapel,” meant to celebrate black styles of worship, read to her more like a minstrel show, an offensive attempt to “check off the diversity box.” The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In one scene, blacks, dressed as if extras in a minstrel show, drink whiskey, sit barefoot and gouge on meat as they take their places in South Carolina’s new legislature. A new 'Birth of a Nation' dredges up the complicated, ugly legacy of the groundbreaking 1915 film 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He cannot help seeing a touch of minstrel show in his act. A ‘Good Refugee,’ His Song Suffused With Sorrow, Hopes to Touch Germany’s Heart 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z There was a time when white folks painted their faces black and staged “minstrel shows” lampooning African Americans as lazy, dim-witted buffoons who liked to sing. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Some readers may be familiar with “Darlie,” a toothpaste brand popular in parts of Asia, which features a smiling black minstrel in a top hat as the logo. This Chinese laundry ad is racist, but it's hardly the first 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z During the era of slavery, white men performing in minstrel shows would apply a layer of black grease onto their faces, paint exaggerated red lips and dance to ridicule the very act of being black. Political correctness is more than an excuse for phoney martyrs to express old prejudices | Yassir Morsi 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z A promoter told her she was too fat and ugly to be a singer, but she would do in blackface, so she spent a year and a half touring as a minstrel singer. Sophie Tucker: Everybody loves a fat girl - BBC News 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z “If we don’t do well, we’re not going to be dragging around like some band of minstrels who beg people to come to our show,” the Ohio governor said. Wednesday's Campaign Round-Up, 2.3.16 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z For the past several years, however, such use of Native American imagery has fallen out of favor, much like making fun of African Americans through minstrel shows. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Trump’s strange evangelical minstrel routine was just not convincing. Ted Cruz, human dog whistle: Evangelicals — those “courageous conservatives” — know exactly what he is talking about 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The advent of the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s caused some to brand the Globetrotters as minstrel show stereotypes, with much of the criticism falling on Lemon. Meadowlark Lemon, star of 'Harlem Globetrotters,' dies at 83: report 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z In many Decatur residents’ lifetimes, Ku Klux Klan cross burnings were not unusual, and it was not so long ago that minstrel shows performed by whites pretending to be black were common. Alabama editorial roundup 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Instead, the tougher challenge for Botha is a relatively brief solo late in Act 2 when the medieval minstrel knight pleads for God’s forgiveness. Johan Botha headlines Met HD of ‘Tannhaeuser’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Instead, the tougher challenge for Botha is a relatively brief solo late in Act 2 when the medieval minstrel knight pleads for God's forgiveness. Met presents season's only Wagner opera in HD with Johan Botha leading stellar cast 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z On the rare occasions when black people were depicted in popular culture, they were nearly always drawn as stereotypes or caricatures, or were shown in the role of comic minstrels entertaining white audiences. The rebellious act of painting African-Americans 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Blackface was often used in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring white performers portraying African-Americans, often in a degrading manner. Arizona university asks football fans to shun blackface 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In Beatty’s novel, a young black farmer in modern Los Angeles reluctantly takes on a vulgar former TV minstrel star as his slave. The Year We Obsessed Over Identity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z He not only exhorted his “brother birds” and “sister cicada” to be minstrels of God, but showed consideration for their needs. Saint Francis of Assisi Inspired the Pope—and Me 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z “I’m also not a fan of non-Black people calling Blacks ‘Uncle Toms’ ‘minstrels’ etc. George Takei implies Clarence Thomas race traitor in defense of ‘blackface’ comments 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In his "Neighbors," a family of minstrels in blackface moves in next to a contemporary mixed-race family. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns with 'Gloria' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In his “Neighbors,” a family of minstrels in blackface moves in next to a contemporary mixed-race family. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns with ‘Gloria’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z And what part of Italy was this minstrel from? An Italian Mayor Makes His First Trip to Manhattan, and Likes What He Tastes 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Characters like the sarcastic sorceress Yennefer, the charming minstrel Dandelion and the ruthless crime lord Dijkstra are strong enough to carry games of their own. Review: ‘Witcher III’ an intimate story in epic trappings 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The Washington Post called it “a subversive minstrel show sprung from an encyclopedic mind drunk on the Mad Hatter’s tea”. Meet Nell Zink. Her story is as good as her novels... | Hermione Hoby 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The Novosibirsk “Tannhauser” imagines Wagner’s hero, a minstrel who vacillates between Venus and the Church, as a contemporary film director who makes a movie about Jesus Christ. The New Russian Censors 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The legislature found time to pick not one but two replacements for “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia,” the minstrel tune demoted to “state song emeritus” in 1997 because of its nostalgic references to slavery. Legislative session a mixed bag for McAuliffe 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Its logo was a grinning minstrel in blackface wearing a top hat, tuxedo and bow tie. Adidos and Hotwind? In China, Brands Adopt Names to Project Foreign Flair 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The song, originally penned in 1859 for a minstrel show and later popularized as the Confederate anthem during the Civil War, longingly recalls the antebellum South. Prosecutor's use of 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z In and out of prison, Manson became interested in music and the occult, and when he was last released in 1967, he headed for San Francisco as a “roving minstrel.” Who Is Charles Manson? 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z This rehearsal for the minstrel show tests the son’s patience. Review: New feast of stories in Theroux collection 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It noted social media reaction that mentioned "blackface," which was common in old American minstrel shows featuring white performers as stereotyped black characters. South African students investigated over costumes 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z African-American performers appeared to have donned blackface for different reasons: to mollify white audiences by obscuring their individuality, to continue the minstrel tradition, or even to heighten the absurdity of the convention. Coming Soon, a Century Late: A Black Film Gem 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The minstrel boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him. Hilary Mantel: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: August 6th 1983 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z I asked Storie if he would consider producing a blackface show, where white actors paint their faces dark to play caricatures of African-American minstrels. The yellowface of “The Mikado” in your face 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Those minstrel forms would be unacceptable today but it was how American tap drew inspiration from both African and European traditions. Savion Glover's tap-dancing mission 2014-04-03T23:49:18Z He says it was boredom with commercial music that lead him to discover the dynamic Baul musicians, mystic minstrels from Bengal. VIDEO: Asia Beats: Ruhaniyat, India 2014-03-20T20:09:08Z Throughout the early 20th Century, watermelon was often used in minstrel shows that caricatured black people. School Apologizes for Black History Month Menu 2014-02-07T15:35:30Z He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and wrote or co-wrote “If I Had a Hammer,” ”Turn, Turn, Turn,” ”Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.” Legendary folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94 2014-01-28T14:05:00Z The Palace opened in 1926 hosting silent films, vaudeville and minstrel shows. In Switch to Digital, Small Theaters in Adirondacks Face Choice: Pay or Perish 2013-12-26T01:53:34Z He also joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, for which he wrote a parody of a minstrel show, “A Minstrel Show, or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel.” Saul Landau, Maker of Films With Leftist Edge, Dies at 77 2013-09-12T02:52:19Z Another tale has him venturing into the Viking camp disguised as a minstrel, to find out what the Vikings were planning. When leaders go out in public 2013-08-12T14:14:09Z The campaign had minstrels following Mr. Lefkowitz on his walking tours, singing it. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2013-06-22T03:30:00Z A minstrel, acoustic guitar on lap, who spontaneously burst into song. City Room: Metropolitan Diary: On the Subway, Dioramas of Manhattan Life 2013-06-05T12:30:50Z Blackface was often used in minstrel shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring white performers portraying African Americans, often in a degrading manner. New York assemblyman apologizes for blackface party costume 2013-02-26T06:28:55Z More importantly for his subsequent career, he enjoyed the sports department's gift of weekend football or rugby reports, those on Jimmy Hill's Fulham an early sign of his growing minstrel flair. Frank Keating obituary 2013-01-25T17:08:11Z And this wandering minstrel of the links was on his way to a portable toilet, no less. On Golf: At British Open Course, Peculiarities Around Every Bend 2012-07-20T18:25:46Z Some players have told me that a failure to act would only endorse what they have always felt: that black people have no place in this game other than as minstrels performing on a stage. John Terry trial: now the FA must act 2012-07-13T14:04:48Z A minstrel and a damsel sing to them, while cupids flutter about and wave torches. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Nuns left their precincts, visited their friends, attended feasts, listened to wandering minstrels, with hardly any restraint upon their movements. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z In a moment the two minstrels arose, and beholding in the air a mysterious hand beckoning to them, they fled after it as it retreated. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z Sweet minstrel of the heart, we list in vain For music now; THY melody is o’er; Fidelio hath ceased o’er hearts to reign, Somnambula hath slept to wake no more! Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z “You’ve never been to the Moore and Burgess minstrels, have you, dear?” she was saying. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Without farther words, Woodville quitted the lodge; the porter hurried on to open the gates, and the young gentleman went out with the people who had borne or accompanied the poor old minstrel thither. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Two days before the Eisteddfod, there began to troop into the town from all parts bards and singers, poets and harpers and minstrels and the members of a chorus five hundred voices strong. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z A beggar, except he is a wandering minstrel, would fail to charm the solitary cash that is usually thrown at him, unless he had some glaring disease that would excite pity. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Subsequently he wanders over Europe in despair, for he has hoped to marry the princess, till he meets with two minstrels, who accompany him to the English court. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z The choice of the wandering minstrels is their duet, "I have a song to sing, O!" The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Who ever heard of King before who troubled his nobility about minstrels and tomblesteres? Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z When they did meet, it was among a host of servants, men-at-arms, poor relations, minstrels and retainers; they had no scope for boring each other. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z When he rose, it was floating on the water like fat, and he got into the middle of it, coming out as black as a negro minstrel! The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z In the heroic age the Gandharvas have become the heavenly minstrels plying their art at Indra’s court, with the Apsaras as their wives or mistresses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He had examined the library, the billiard-room, the dancing-room, the minstrels' gallery, the banqueting hall, and the many other apartments belonging to this fine old mansion. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z I once rescued from injury the wife of a good soldier, named Brune, the son of one of Northumberland's minstrels. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z The principal towns of Germany by turns received the itinerant minstrel, who supported himself by the alternate manufacture of verses and of shoes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Sweet were the notes that he taught to the young; Psalms for the Sabbath on Sabbath were sung; And the young minstrels enraptured would come To the lone cottage I once called my home. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z The blind minstrel was the counterpart of the noble savage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z As the two lines close up together they strike each other with their wings with a sound something like the spatting of hands at a minstrel jig. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z That old man was my father's father; a minstrel once in the house of the great Earl of Northumberland--I can just remember the Earl--and a gay and happy household it was. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Saying, 'From these wandering minstrels I have learned the art of song; Let me now repay the lessons They have taught so well and long. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The derangement of Saul yielded to the harp of David, and the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha as the minstrel played. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z A distinguished sculptor may appreciate on the stage only negro minstrels or a tenth-rate farce. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Between songs there were jokes, as at the minstrels. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The poor minstrel's limbs had no strength, however, and fearing that he was much hurt, the young gentleman exclaimed, "Good heaven! why did you not get out of their way?" Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Hence the Median minstrels had a most excellent reason to celebrate this crowning achievement of their nation; it afforded them a most agreeable subject. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z Negative stereotypes abounded in caricatures and minstrel shows. City Room: Carla L. Peterson on Black Life in 19th-Century New York 2012-02-17T16:51:48Z I don't think he was ever anything more than an amateur, but he was perpetually dancing jigs, and singing comic songs, and went crazy over a minstrel show. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z It is right bounteous in me to pour the tale in minstrel phrase for—augh—I am sleepy. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z I am aware of him," answered the minstrel's girl; "and I abhor him. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out, my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z I do not say it’s quiet reading, because unprincipled people will come headlong and listen when you have got your minstrel started, without paying their subscription. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z He assured our manager that this concession afforded a real pleasure; that he held a keen interest in our profession, having years ago done a clog dance as a negro minstrel. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z And then I thought I had lost you for ever; and you are by my side: and now the minstrels are going to play again. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The listeners, young and active, easily got out of the way; but not so the old minstrel, who stood still, as if bewildered, and was knocked down and trampled by one of the horsemen. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z She spoke about Francis, recalling his first afternoon at Marlborough House, when he was quite small and wept bitterly when the negro minstrels appeared. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z You see your minstrel’s net, you select an object and say how much that song. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Crichtoun! though now thy miry court But pens the lazy steer and sheep, Thy turrets rude and tottered Keep, Have been the minstrel's loved resort. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z The duke's minstrels swept their lutes at intervals, and a fountain played red Burgundy in six jets that met and battled in the air. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z He hesitated for an instant, asking himself whether it were worth his while to pursue this course any farther, for a low minstrel girl, against such unexpected resistance. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z |
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