minstrelsy

How To Use minstrelsy In A Sentence

• Such characters emerged in late eighteenth-century plays and sheet music, and became mainstays of nineteenth-century minstrelsy.
• 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
• A word may be added concerning Lhamon's prose style, perhaps derived from his long immersion in minstrelsy.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• A common, seemingly fantastical theme in early minstrelsy was the flamboyant dress of the slave characters. A Renegade History of the United States
• 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.
• 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
• Further, Weigel's invocation of "minstrelsy" rankles. The M Word