| Such characters emerged in late eighteenth-century plays and sheet music, and became mainstays of nineteenth-century minstrelsy. |
| Tap dance evolved from plantation dances and minstrelsy, and the Broadway musical grew out of burlesque and operettas. |
| 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. |
| A word may be added concerning Lhamon's prose style, perhaps derived from his long immersion in minstrelsy. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
