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The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface.
Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, happy-go-lucky, and musical. The minstrel show began with brief burlesques and comic entr'actes in the early 1830s and emerged as a full-fledged form in the next decade. In 1848, blackface minstrel shows were the national art of the time, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience.
By the turn of the 20th century, the minstrel show enjoyed but a shadow of its former popularity, having been replaced for the most part by vaudeville. It survived as professional entertainment until about 1910; amateur performances continued until the 1960s in high schools, and local theaters. As the civil rights movement progressed and gained acceptance, minstrels lost popularity.
http://www.ragtimeband.co.uk/minstrel man.jpg
H Magenta λέει: minstrel = ηθοποιός που υποδύεται νέγρο #ιστ. τροβαδούρος, μενεστρέλος. Προφανώς μας ενδιαφέρει η πρώτη έννοια, και όχι ο τροβαδούρος.
H Judy Garland τραγουδάει στην ταινία Babes in Arms:
My daddy was a minstrel man
When minstrels were the thing
When Mr. Bones and Mr. Jones
Danced the buck and wing
When Eddie Leonard was so great
And Primrose was the king
Gee, I'd like to be a minstrel man
I'd like to black my face
Put on a stovepipe hat
Get out an old banjo
And go once again down memory lane
With an old-fashioned minstrel show
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The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface.
Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, happy-go-lucky, and musical. The minstrel show began with brief burlesques and comic entr'actes in the early 1830s and emerged as a full-fledged form in the next decade. In 1848, blackface minstrel shows were the national art of the time, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience.
By the turn of the 20th century, the minstrel show enjoyed but a shadow of its former popularity, having been replaced for the most part by vaudeville. It survived as professional entertainment until about 1910; amateur performances continued until the 1960s in high schools, and local theaters. As the civil rights movement progressed and gained acceptance, minstrels lost popularity.
http://www.ragtimeband.co.uk/minstrel man.jpg
H Magenta λέει: minstrel = ηθοποιός που υποδύεται νέγρο #ιστ. τροβαδούρος, μενεστρέλος. Προφανώς μας ενδιαφέρει η πρώτη έννοια, και όχι ο τροβαδούρος.
H Judy Garland τραγουδάει στην ταινία Babes in Arms:
My daddy was a minstrel man
When minstrels were the thing
When Mr. Bones and Mr. Jones
Danced the buck and wing
When Eddie Leonard was so great
And Primrose was the king
Gee, I'd like to be a minstrel man
I'd like to black my face
Put on a stovepipe hat
Get out an old banjo
And go once again down memory lane
With an old-fashioned minstrel show
Δυστυχώς, δεν υπάρχει πια το ανάλογο γιουτιουμπάκι.
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