| Tap dance evolved from plantation dances and minstrelsy, and the Broadway musical grew out of burlesque and operettas. |
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| Such characters emerged in late eighteenth-century plays and sheet music, and became mainstays of nineteenth-century minstrelsy. |
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| A word may be added concerning Lhamon's prose style, perhaps derived from his long immersion in minstrelsy. |
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| After emancipation in 1863, minstrelsy was taken over increasingly by black performers. |
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| Like those later musics, minstrelsy had, or claimed to have, something to do with black people. |
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| This ensured the continuance of the blackface minstrelsy type into the new century as surely as it brought to an end the pejoratively associated whiteface type. |
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| In doing so, black minstrelsy signified on the white supremacist belief that black degeneracy would ultimately lead to the extinction of the black race. |
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| Cole discusses such sensitive topics as female impersonation and minstrelsy in order to deconstruct and elaborate on the many nuances of the concert party theater. |
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| Tosches documents the rise and fall of minstrelsy in an impressive, sometimes dizzying chronicle of long-forgotten names that made me wish the book had an audio component. |
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| There is in this scene incredible creativity, innovation and imagination coupled with sleazy self-promotion, hucksterism, minstrelsy and debasement of the race. |
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| The drop below his signal eloquence was a submission to the kind of minstrelsy demanded of anyone, high or low, these days. |
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| In their dancing, in their minstrelsy and then in ragtime, black Americans were insisting on setting European-style music free by refusing to be restricted to a ground beat. |
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| If it's true that Foster was no fan of minstrelsy and blackface, it's not something he would be proud of, regardless of the strained Southern black dialect in his lyrics. |
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| Blackface minstrelsy, also called blackface, indigenous American theatrical form that constituted a subgenre of the minstrel show. |
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| The blatant style of minstrelsy marks these ballads off sharply from folk creations. |
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| I soon thought of this new and amoral cynicism as the most pernicious form of minstrelsy ever created and popularized. |
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| Video games represent a modern, sophisticated, multicultural, virtual form of minstrelsy. |
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| The Madea films thrive on an ugly mix of minstrelsy and moralism. |
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| The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony. |
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| Scotland may not spawn such perversions, but recent history has taught us suspicion of collective identities, especially those that disguise their innate conservatism by ethnic minstrelsy. |
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| Many Border ballads were collected by Sir Walter Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. |
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| In writing Old Mortality Scott drew upon the knowledge he had acquired from his researches into ballads on the subject for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. |
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