Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (July 2023) Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century. The shows were performed by mostly white ...
Blackface minstrelsy was the conduit through which African-American and African-American-influenced music, comedy, and dance first reached the white American mainstream. [21] It played a seminal role in the introduction of African-American culture to world audiences.
Lew Dockstader Bert Williams, shown here in blackface, was the highest-paid African-American entertainer of his day.. This is a list of entertainers known to have performed in blackface makeup, whether in a minstrel show, as satire or historical depiction of such roles, or in a portrayal of a character using makeup as a racial disguise, for whatever reason.
Blackface minstrel managers and producers (18 P) P. Blackface minstrel performers (135 P) S. Blackface minstrel shows and films (68 P) Blackface minstrel songs (47 P)
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the "father of American minstrelsy".
The origins of blackface date back to the minstrel shows of the mid-19th century. White performers darkened their skin with shoe polish and cork, put on tattered clothing and exaggerated their ...
WASHINGTON – Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., wore blackface as part of a Halloween costume in 2006, ... Blackface has its roots in minstrelsy, starting in New York city in the 1830s. It has long been ...
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509641-X. Mahar, William J. (1999). Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Nathan, Hans (1962). Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy ...