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- The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy is an American stage play written by Jason Christophe White and co-directed by Aaron White, which opened...3 KB (322 words) - 15:37, 20 August 2022
Minstrel show (redirect from Negro minstrelsy)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...88 KB (11,590 words) - 08:22, 22 June 2024- Jason Christophe White (category African-American dramatists and playwrights)NAACP Theater Award-winning American playwright, his one produced play being The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy, which he co-wrote and co-directed...4 KB (304 words) - 20:18, 2 March 2023
Blackface (redirect from Blackface minstrelsy)minstrelsy was the conduit through which African-American and African-American-influenced music, comedy, and dance first reached the white American mainstream...197 KB (21,982 words) - 02:44, 3 July 2024
music. Tap dancing can also be a cappella, with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music. It is an African-American artform that...22 KB (2,788 words) - 04:46, 9 July 2024- Aaron White (category African-American dramatists and playwrights)White (born 1980) is an American actor and director, his most notable work for The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy, which he co-wrote and co-directed...4 KB (262 words) - 20:03, 27 November 2022
- Nineteenth-Century American Blackface Minstrelsy, New York University, ProQuest 304709304 "Blackface: the Sad History of Minstrel Shows". AMERICAN HERITAGE. Archived...14 KB (1,583 words) - 07:36, 5 July 2024
Cakewalk (redirect from The Cakewalk)The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at...27 KB (3,159 words) - 10:00, 25 April 2024
Walkaround (category Blackface minstrelsy)popularity of walkarounds in minstrelsy allowed the style to influence later dances, as well. In later years, the cakewalk became integrated into the walkaround...3 KB (363 words) - 12:37, 21 April 2023- by those who, in the early days of minstrelsy, made that a feature of their business...," Ed. James, Jig, Clog and Breakdown Dancing Made Easy…, (New...9 KB (1,250 words) - 15:30, 31 August 2023
music began in the 19th century with the advent of blackface minstrelsy. The banjo, of African origin, became a popular instrument, and its African-derived...77 KB (9,101 words) - 14:52, 8 July 2024
America from the Congo during slavery. One of the hit songs of early blackface minstrelsy was banjo player Joel Walker Sweeney's "Vine Twist". One of...15 KB (2,080 words) - 14:38, 24 May 2024
Jig (redirect from Slide (dance))Sand dancing was a staple of minstrelsy, variety and vaudeville, and was kept alive in later decades largely by African-American tap dancers, including...14 KB (1,686 words) - 15:50, 19 June 2024
Lhamon, in connection with the development of blackface minstrelsy as well as African-American music and African-American dance performances.[citation needed]...4 KB (536 words) - 02:05, 11 March 2024
Thomas D. Rice (category American male dancers)minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the "father of American minstrelsy". His act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized...14 KB (1,960 words) - 05:34, 2 July 2024
connected with Morris dancing. Another interpretation is that traditionally the use of soot to blacken faces in morris dancing was derived from its use...23 KB (2,873 words) - 01:29, 15 April 2024- 27. Sammond, Nicholas. "Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation: Vaudeville and the Movies". USC.edu. Rothstein,...152 KB (18,820 words) - 19:53, 22 June 2024
- Americans was the use of blackface. Directly related to this was the institution of minstrelsy. Other stereotypes of African Americans included the fat...252 KB (28,255 words) - 09:46, 8 July 2024
- first appeared in print in the 1834 publication The Bishoprick Garland by Cuthbert Sharp. The 1882 book Northumbrian Minstrelsy published an arrangement...8 KB (839 words) - 22:31, 1 March 2024
Vaudeville (redirect from History of Vaudeville)sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business"...57 KB (6,770 words) - 18:41, 6 June 2024
- of literary romance—a view to which Mr Courthope, in his History of English Poetry, and Mr Henderson in The Border Minstrelsy (1902), incline—and the
- sterner wit Did never dream of. Time hath been ere now That Jove hath listen'd to our minstrelsy. Till wrath would seem to drop out of his soul Like a forgotten
- African America or Latin American community, and then moves into the mainstream of popular culture. The Minstrel Show, or blackface minstrelsy, featured