How To Use Minstrel In A Sentence

The song and minstrelsy of Wales have from the earliest period of its history been nurtured by its eisteddfodau. The Poetry of Wales
Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day.
Francofolies, he is called, this special time when minstrels and jongleurs assemble to share their dreams and secrets in the tongue of Moliere.
Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor.
Most of the rest of the songs, original and traditional, are performed in blackface to illustrate the progress of his minstrel career.

He handed to the prisoner, as he spoke, the writing materials, which had been seized upon by the archers on their first entrance, and then commanded those satellites to unhand the minstrel. Castle Dangerous
Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.
The evening begins with champagne and includes a four-course banquet, unlimited drinks and entertainment from minstrels, jesters and fire-eaters.
Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
He represents the Fiend passing up through the market, and chuckling as he listens to the strange oaths of cobbler, maltman, tailor, courtier, and minstrel. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
I'm far more offended by minstrelizing robots with no plausible connection to hip hop by any imaginative stretch and the use of mudflap a derogatory term involving the assumption of a dirty and uncivilized penis than a series of black monsters set in Africa of all places. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
In 1899 the Witmark brothers published The First Minstrel Encyclopaedia and The First Minstrel Catalogue, which “covered every want of the amateur quite as well as the mastodonic Sears, Roebuck catalogue covers the needs of its vast patronage.” A Renegade History of the United States
Just how important minstrels and jongleurs were once can be seen by studying the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
The genius of Lee's film is that it too exploits the American minstrel heritage - the Sambo performances are devilishly powerful - but with a careful emphasis.
Gavin Lawrence as the Interlocutor in The Last Minstrel Show is sleek, sly, and not at all reassuring in his oversized cutaway coat, pin-striped pants, white spats, and Cheshire grin.
The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily.
Although most of their verse was set to music, sung by the Minnesinger themselves and often accompanied by professional minstrels, few melodies have survived from the first two centuries of the movement's existence.
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.
A minstrel's gallery provides additional sleeping accommodation in the roof space above the kitchen.
Dalrymple says the Bauls' unorthodoxy has historically pushed their role beyond that of just minstrels. India's Wandering Minstrels Blend Spirituality, Irreverence
An ash staircase leads upstairs where an ash balustrade forms a minstrel's gallery overlooking the entrance hall.
Kuepper's a troubadour, a wandering minstrel who unpacks his swag at the Great Northern this Sunday, May 8.
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.
Where Benchtours and Théâtre Sans Frontières take us into another world, Borderline take us back in time to Italy's medieval minstrels with Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo.
Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
As soon as the Castilians came in sight, the Tlascalans set up their yell of defiance, rising high above the wild barbaric minstrelsy of shell, atabal, and trumpet, with which they proclaimed their triumphant anticipations of victory over the paltry forces of the invaders. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
A brazen fanfare erupted from the royal minstrels, and whole ranks of armor-clad young noblemen stepped forward.
Reciters of epic poetry in the bardic tradition can loosely be described as minstrels, as can the instrumentalists who worked alongside the troubadours, trouvères, and Minnesinger.
Touring black minstrel troupes flourished from the 1860s into the early years of the 20th century, providing an avenue by which black Americans could make a living as musicians.
a profane and drunken minstrel, called Allan-a-Dale Ivanhoe
Germany, the place of his imprisonment was discovered by Blondel, his minstrel, who sang beneath the fortress a _tenson_ which he and Richard had composed in common, and to which Richard responded. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
His guitar may be a crutch but is an awfully artful one, akin to a medieval minstrel's cittern accompanying a sung ballad. Poet, Prophet and Puzzle
Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
Looking in the mirror above the sink, he saw that his face was covered in a thin layer of sooty grime, like a black and white minstrel half way through putting on his make up.
Tap dance evolved from plantation dances and minstrelsy, and the Broadway musical grew out of burlesque and operettas.
Their condition indicates long usage and there is textual evidence that they were used as illustrations to stories told and performed by travelling minstrels.
‘Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves’ is a two-part interrogation of the black minstrel tradition embodied by the famous face of Aunt Jemima.
Origin of story telling and the story-sagaman and minstrel; the story in language, grammar, song, creative work, dramatization, etc.; the formal and expression of the spiritual. University of Virginia Record
Then he had a herald of arms, a physician, an apothecary, four minstrels, a keeper of his tents, an armourer and instructor of his wards, an instructor of his wardrobe of robes, a keeper of his chamber continually; he had also in his house a surveyor of York, a clerk of the greencloth. The Customs of Old England
And then one day, you got into a fight with the minstrel and even though you were favored with 3 to 1 odds, due to your size and sexy flaring nostrils, the minstrel somehow skewered you with a pickle fork and went on to be called Ewald The Fighting Minstrel, while I was left alone to put loganberry flowers on your pyre and swear that we would be together in Valhalla. Billets Doux
That is called a minstrel show, circa the 21st century. Kevin Powell: Ashley Judd and Hip-Hop Culture
The whole Virginia Minstrels chorus joins in while cakewalking in line behind Emmett.
On the first day of the month Lester Piggott, in partnership with The Minstrel, raced to his eighth Derby victory with the Queen cheering him past the post.
Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon,63 the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If the last generation of black minstrels hadn't been killed and almost killed by white Southerners on a daily basis-and been driven to take up arms-they wouldn't have needed that music either.
Soon he branches out on his own and progresses quickly from chorus singer to a featured act while appearing in blackface with one of the country's popular minstrel shows.
She told me the instrument was called the vielle, in fact -- our old English viol; a very ancient instrument, which is represented as being played by one of the minstrels sculptured on the east front of Launceston Parish In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
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Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion.
Then there are home-made fifes and whistles and drums, combs covered with paper, extemporized triangles, and bones made from ribs of salt horse such as negro minstrels use. CHAPTER XLIII
Much has been made of the occasional references to grotesque Negro facial features, but minstrel songs, particularly those written during slavery, more frequently referred to longings for beautiful slave women on the plantation. A Renegade History of the United States
Captain Corbet has since retired from caving and is now a wandering minstrel on the Grand Union Canal.
Are we to believe that bushido warriors in Edo Japan, princes and minstrels in medieval Europe, Renaissance courtesans and Mongol nomads were lacking because their lives failed to square with a modern ideal of personal autonomy?
In time, however, the writing of Interludes became a profession; they improved rapidly in character, were separated from the Miracles, and were performed at entertainments or "revels" by trade guilds, by choir boys and by companies of strolling actors or "minstrels. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
Its writers were not able to assuage our memory of the minstrel with black characters who, without a full range of emotion, were no more than highly skilled laborers.
The minstrels have a fabliau of a daw with borrowed feathers — why, this Oliver is The very bird, and, by St. Dunstan, if he lets his chattering tongue run on at my expense, I will so pluck him as never hawk plumed a partridge. The Fair Maid of Perth
For years this minstrel roamed up and down the boreens and roads of Mayo and Galway until finally he died in Craughwell, Co. Galway at the age of fifty one.
Minstrel shows included music, dance and comedy.
One man there was of them who was fashioned of the minstrel craft by nature, and who forgathered with me specially, till we became friends, and he was a solace to me, with his tales and his songs of The Water of the Wondrous Isles
I have some talent as a minstrel and a poet, and though I don't care much for Bardic I am reasonably content. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
They dressed themselves up as black and white minstrels - that sort of thing,’ says Mark.
`If he's your head poet, minstrel or whatever, you can't expect him to be very practical. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Smothered in coal dust, we looked like the Black and White Minstrels, and the removal of our lab goggles just made us look even more ridiculous.
The minstrel was often paid to sing the praises of his master at the feast (as bad as the holiday slides!)
Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
Historical: blackface was used in minstrel shows and later in blackface sketches in more mainstream vaudeville to humorously denigrate African Americans. SNL's Fauxbama Blackface Thing
The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel. Masters of the Guild
With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music.
At the point where we descended from our carriage to look from the upland out over the vast hollow of land and sea toward Pozzuoli, which is so interesting as the scene of Jove's memorable struggle with the Titans, and just when we were really beginning to feel equal to it, a company of minstrels suddenly burst upon us with guitars and mandolins and comic songs much dramatized, while the immediate natives offered us violets and other distracting flowers. Roman Holidays, and Others
There were there twelve minstrels anticly disguised; with forty six or more gentlemen and ladies, many of them knights or nobles, and ladies of honor, apparelled in crimson sattin, embroidered upon with wreaths of gold, and garnished with borders of hanging pearl. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
While having his meal, the stranger listened to the minstrel who was performing in the tavern.
Blackface minstrelsy was widely popular but not “respectable.” A Renegade History of the United States
The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
And when the philosophers have done and performed their commandments, then the minstrels begin to do their minstrelsy, everych in their instruments, each after other, with all the melody that they can devise. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The blues ‘sound’ of black minstrel life is audible here, in the paradoxical conjunction of Pullman car luxury with preparations for ignominious flight.
To put the matter another way, black minstrels led blues lives that their burlesque art could not adequately express.
Unlike the minstrel who sings freely, with his audience joining in, Spenser now has to deal with the expectations of his audience.
Poets and wandering minstrels to a remarkably open and tolerant society, they wrote of freedom and justice and gallantry and of a kind of courtly love that was entirely new to literature.
The high concept involves two young black men donning blackface minstrel makeup, reciting various bits of anachronistic shtick, parodying cruel racial stereotypes of yesteryear.
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
Tannhäuser is not an invention, though it is to Wagner alone that we owe his association with the famous contest of minstrelsy which is the middle picture in Wagner's drama. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
How white performers acquired the knowledge and skills to imitate blacks on the minstrel stage is less apparent, though some information exists.
Additionally, the cultural heritage has been immortalized in the famous epic poem Sonjara, sung by minstrels since the thirteenth century.
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup. Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan
She has listened well to the tales the minstrels and jongleurs tell in private company, to the boasting of troubadours and the knights of the castle, and I care not to speculate on how this has come to pass.
The meal got off to a slightly odd note as a wandering band of minstrels invaded the restaurant and played accordion and guitar loudly.
Stretched full upon the floor would lay the minstrel, lute in hands, thrumming gently as his voice rang out through the marble room.
Such characters emerged in late eighteenth-century plays and sheet music, and became mainstays of nineteenth-century minstrelsy.
Vagabond Tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the world and through time to bring different kinds of music back to the traveling minstrels of Barrage.
Although the Jim Crow character as a feature of minstrel shows became popular in the generation before the Civil War, early photographic images of people in blackface are quite rare.
Mixing roles "The Scottsboro Boys" makes use of the kind of broad stylized characters typical in minstrel shows and has many of the actors playing multiple roles - including white stereotypes. Broadway Musical Resurrects Grim Racial Event
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The minstrel quickly plunged the burning metal rod in the soldier's face.
The last, nevertheless, again grasped his instrument, and the pibroch of the clan yet poured its expiring notes over the Clan Chattan, while the dying minstrel had breath to inspire it. The Fair Maid of Perth
There are street minstrels, acrobats, story tellers, mimes, and painters.
In these arrangements, and in planning their future movements relative to the rescue of Lady Helen, they passed several hours, and were only interrupted by the arrival of a lute from the queen for her minstrel to tune. The Scottish Chiefs
The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
Yes, I met him sneaking through the lanes and bye passages with a common minstrel wench, with her messan and her viol on his one arm and her buxom self hanging upon the other. The Fair Maid of Perth
Sir John de Walton having alighted from his horse, asked Greenleaf what had passed during his absence; the old archer thought it his duty to say that a minstrel, who seemed like a Scotchman, or wandering borderer, had been admitted into the castle, while his son, a lad sick of the pestilence so much talked of, had been left for a time at the Abbey of Saint Bride. Castle Dangerous
Imagine harsh whining noise emanating from a minstrel's gallery in a church in a woodland village in Dorset.
You can hardly move for minstrels, mummers and madcaps: the rolling programme of ye olde entertainment includes music from the Singing Plague Victims and have-a-go heraldry for youngsters.
Still let me sing thy praises, gracious Love, though I am entering on the days of fogeydom, and my minstrelsy is something rusty. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
They were meant for minstrels to sing in baronial halls.
Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
Popular in 19th-century minstrel shows, versions such as ‘buck-and-wing’ (danced vigorously in wooden-soled shoes) and ‘soft-shoe’ (shoes) developed as separate techniques; by 1925 they had merged, and metal taps were attached to shoe heels and toes to produce a more pronounced sound.
With the invention of print, minstrels in their medieval form largely disappeared, becoming balladeers selling broadsheets of their songs and singing to advertise their wares, or stage-players.
Further, Weigel's invocation of "minstrelsy" rankles. The M Word
When a bard or wildered minstrel writes so, best accept his own confession, that he is losing his head. Roundabout Papers
The scholar Eric Lott has noted, “The very instrumentation of minstrel bands followed this pattern: the banjo and jawbone were black, while the fiddle, bones, and tambourine derived perhaps from an instrument called the bodhran were Irish.” A Renegade History of the United States
Peasants who sing fragments of it as they toil in the fields, and the minstrel, the guslar, who chants it for them of an evening, believe that it is, like their folk-songs, the anonymous production of the Serbian people. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
They chose a street corner far from the barrio, donned their minstrel outfits, and tried out their act. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
On a lighter note there will be a colourful fair, with stalls, minstrels, stilt walkers, jesters and jugglers and a cavalcade of colourful characters.
a _guslar_, or minstrel, as they call them in Croatia. The Gypsies
Some have called rap merely modern poetry, or the modern urban equivalent to bardic minstrels. "Rap" as a Symbol for the Present… and Future? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
This hall has been called his rightful kingdom; he sits among the other minstrels consciously like a young monarch. The Wagnerian Romances
She started well as a figurante in a comic opera company up-town, but from that she dropped to a female minstrel troupe in the Bowery, and now, Lewy Tusch told Cordelia, she was "tooing ter skirt-tance in ter pickernic parks for ter sick-baby fund, ant passin 'ter hat arount afterwarts. Different Girls
A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
As the troupe becomes even more successful, their stage set at the Maxwell Theater features a huge Sambo backdrop through whose grinning mouth the minstrels cakewalk onto the stage.
Producing affective switch points between two simultaneous registers of sympathy and ridicule, minstrel performances catalyze confrontations within social relations.
We are the travelling bards of the renaissance; travelling minstrels that make music for people to make them happy.
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
The banjo was the real musical instrument of the Southern negroes, not the fancy silver or nickel rimmed article with frets seen now on the minstrel stage or in the shops, but a very crude device, which I believe to be of native origin, notwithstanding the name is said to be corrupted from the Spanish bandore. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
They will spend the first two nights mingling with minstrels and musicians at the fairytale, medieval-style Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas.
His career, which included stints as an amateur boxer, minstrel in black face and dancer, spanned seven decades in which he starred in five mediums: vaudeville, radio, stage, movies and television.
After dinner the loving cup went round: the minstrels led in the players: and they had dramatic shows, songs, dances and 'mummeries' for the rest of the day. The History of London
New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was not originally called swing, but rather jazz.
By great good luck my sexton had about him his own short black dudheen, which accordingly the Minstrel filled and fired. The Cornwall Coast
The cast's sole survivor from the great Minstrel days says that's a shame.
When the solstice lordship settled upon him, he had rousted the minstrels and set great back-alley feasts, lighting the lives of London's poor like a balefire on a barren heath.
And he looked disconsolately at the Minstrel, as though in fear that he would be discouraged from the adventure. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
The area was lousy with saloons, dime museums, oyster bars, minstrel theaters, and establishments promising women in varying states of undress.
But any reader might be pardoned for not at once divining that the double rillet of minstrelsy, on page 37, was the Troubadour and the Trouvere, nor for refusing to read pages 155 and 156 without a tolerable outfit of information upon the historical points and personages there catalogued. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
He said the Great Hall was a major feature, with its high vaulted ceiling, stone floor and minstrels' gallery - and the views were breathtaking.
Origin of story telling and the story-sagaman and minstrel; the story in language, grammar, song, creative work, dramatization, etc.; the formal and expression of the spiritual; how to tell a tale — psychological principles. University of Virginia Record
In "The Scottsboro Boys," Messrs. Kander and Ebb (who died in 2004 while writing the musical) and David Thompson, the show's librettist, have compressed this complicated sequence of events into a lengthy one-act musical that makes use of all the theatrical conventions of the old-fashioned blackface minstrel shows that were popular well into the 20th century. A Perilous Page of History to Turn
He 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.
A common, seemingly fantastical theme in early minstrelsy was the flamboyant dress of the slave characters. A Renegade History of the United States
The Minstrel was thought a miler until he ran in the Derby.
Though Peder and Susie are not wearing blackface, the chronological events of Beret's gaze perform a sort of minstrel act on them.
As the minstrel show emerged, American publishers sought to attract amateur musicians and provided a flow of spirituals, gospel songs, polkas, and Schottisches, as well as innumerable sentimental ballads and salon pieces.
It is certainly no accident that most of the creators of blackface minstrelsy spent time in the city known as “the Queen of the West.” A Renegade History of the United States
Then it occurred to me how much finer a spectacle my ebony friend would make; how well his six feet of manly sinew would grace those pulpit stairs; how eloquently the reverend gentleman might expatiate on the burning sin of shrouding the light of such an intellect in the mists of niggerdom, only to see it snuffed out in darkness; how he might enlarge on what the black could do in elevating his race, either as "cullud" assistant to "Brother Pease" at the Five-Points, or as co-laborer with Fred Douglass at abolition conventions, or, if that didn't _pay_, how, put into the minstrel business, he might run the white "troupes" off the track, and yield a liberal revenue to the "Cause of Freedom. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
As the minstrels played music, they ate, watching the dancers in scarlet skirts and gold tunics twist and sway timelessly.
Richard, who loved "rich meats," and cared little at this time for their usual accompaniment, "minstrelsy," -- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
And it is much the same with his addiction to vinous revelry, and to the moister kind of minstrelsy; an addiction that proceeds in part from his keen gust of fun, and the happiness he finds in making sport for others as well as for himself: he will drink till the world turns round, but not unless others are at hand to enjoy the turning along with him. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
The Black and White Minstrels are performing without their traditional makeup after complaints that it is racist.
This included the songs sung by black minstrels and early jazz musicians.
The Minstrel and Golden Fleece won him the Epsom Derby, and he owned the winners of three Arcs and four Irish Derbies.
Unless privately armed, however, the minstrel was ill-accoutred for any dangerous occupation. Castle Dangerous
A word may be added concerning Lhamon's prose style, perhaps derived from his long immersion in minstrelsy.
Susan Stroman says "The Scottsboro Boys" makes use of the kind of broad stylized characters typical in minstrel shows. 'Scottsboro Boys' Tell Their Own Story On Broadway
The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel. Masters of the Guild
Look lads, I'm a peddler… not some gleeman or minstrel.
In that long-gone decade, the prospect of watching a stageful of black men perform a "comic" minstrel show about so hideous an event would have stung like a flogging. A Perilous Page of History to Turn
The Weber Minstrels is the title assumed by some gentlemen of this city, who intend to give concerts here and elsewhere. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
True, if he had talked it over with someone, he would have realized that love can be a long, hard road, just like the minstrels sang about.
When fat people are portrayed on film, they're usually played by thin actors in fat suits, a phenomena that's been compared to a modern version of the blackface minstrel show.
When also a chieftain, desirous of raising a band of volunteers for some expedition against the enemy, rides from aoul to aoul summoning all good swords to follow, he transports along with him on the crupper of an attendant the aged minstrel, who at the gates sings the call to arms. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
The young minstrel won the respect and affection of the royal household, and his harpings were the principal solace of the infatuated and gloomy king, who at length made David his armor-bearer. Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2 Patriarchs, Kings, and Kingdoms
The violin has a sensual sound just like cafe mocha has a sensual taste - but like the bitter dregs at the bottom of a coffee cup, even the most soothing minstrels are a little harsh on the ears after, say, an hour.
The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
Of course this was a caricature: most people in 1966 spent their evenings tucked up in front of the Black and White Minstrel Show rather than living it up in the fleshpots of Chelsea.
Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
“Just as the minstrel stage held out the possibility that whites could be ‘black’ for a while but nonetheless white,” David Roediger, the leading historian of “whiteness,” has written, “it offered the possibilities that, via blackface, preindustrial joys could survive amidst industrial discipline.” A Renegade History of the United States
He tramped up a flight of stairs and appeared in the minstrels' gallery overlooking the main collection hall.
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
All this turned into a sort of redneck minstrel show where sanitized country boys eluded and escaped the ever corrupt and incompetent forces of the capitalist-controlled and thus citified law.
Eric Lott and other scholars have argued that expressions of antiblack racism by Irish Americans—such as the lynchings of blacks during the New York City draft riots of 1863, or their invention of the word coon, or the deliberate attempts by some to belittle blacks in minstrel performances—were efforts to hide “their resemblance, in both class and ethnic terms, to ‘blackness.’” A Renegade History of the United States
In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
He makes an excellent case for the value, integrity, and racial equanimity of blackface minstrel performance.
Here should come the gleemen and jonglers, the minstrels, the mountebanks, the party-colored gipsies, the dark-eyed, nut-brown Burlesques
I miss my chosen avocation, which is that of minstrel. The Day of the Dissonance
Eric Lott and other scholars have argued that expressions of antiblack racism by Irish Americans—such as the lynchings of blacks during the New York City draft riots of 1863, or their invention of the word coon, or the deliberate attempts by some to belittle blacks in minstrel performances—were efforts to hide “their resemblance, in both class and ethnic terms, to ‘blackness.’” A Renegade History of the United States
Labels: black and white ball, black and white minstrel show, carol thatcher, tories Carol Thatcher organises cabaret for Tory Black and White Ball
True to form, this crowd included vendors selling political memorabilia, including 'don't tread on me,' flags and buttons with President Obama's image in minstrel white-face, or with the president smoking dope. Jeanine Molloff: In the City of Dred Scott--The Cops War on Videos of Cops
By the 1880s, minstrelsy had shed some of its lowbrow reputation and attained a degree of mainstream respectability. A Renegade History of the United States
Poetry is often sung by minstrels and ballad singers.
The minstrels were embowered in greenery as they played waltzes and quadrilles, which were danced with great zest, and the hall rang with good-humored laughter . . . A Renegade History of the United States
[1] Walter Scott's second verse romance, Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field was published in 1808, following the runaway success of The Lay of the Last Minstrel (London and Edinburgh, 1805). Letter 234
The insulting minstrel shows stole black music because there wasn't anything as interesting to poach from the white musical tradition. "Showtime," Larry Stempel's history of Broadway musicals, reviewed by Lloyd Rose
Yet this wasted wandering minstrel has all the emotional wow of a Waits or a Springsteen in his prime.
As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own.
Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel. Masters of the Guild
Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward.
At the heart of his masterful Elegy for Kosovo, the Albanian fabulist Ismail Kadare places the poignant tale of two fourteenth-century minstrels joined in flight.
On the right of the picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
Because," announced Tristran," every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel. STARDUST
New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was originally called jazz.

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