Minstrel Show, The
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Description: Page from a site on the Jacksonian era in America provides a short history of the minstrel genre and an exploration of the archetypes it created.
The Minstrel Show presents us with a strange, fascinating and awful phenomenon. Minstrel shows emerged from preindustrial European traditions of masking and carnival. But in the US they began in the 1830s, with working class white men dressing up as plantation slaves. These men imitated black musical and dance forms, combining savage parody of black Americans with genuine fondness for African American cultural forms. By the Civil War the minstrel show had become world famous and respectable. Late in his life Mark Twain fondly remembered the "old time nigger show" with its colorful comic darkies and its rousing songs and dances. By the 1840s, the minstrel show had become one of the central events in the culture of the Democratic party.
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| Page title: | The Minstrel Show |
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| IP-address: | 129.174.10.16 |
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| NS | Name Servers: EVE.GMU.EDU 129.174.253.66 RUTH.GMU.EDU 129.174.67.98 |
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| Date | activated: 14-Oct-1987 last updated: 27-Feb-2012 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |