Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

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One of many standout scenes in the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail features King Arthur and his knights facing down the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, a seemingly innocuous bunny who soon ...

MAHANOY CITY – After a one-year hiatus, the popular minstrel program that ran for 16 years in the borough is returning today and Saturday. The minstrel program will be held at 7 p.m. this evening in ...

The sight of middle-class South Bay suburbanites donning blackface makeup in order to play roles in minstrel shows at the local high school auditorium benefit show is wildly inappropriate by modern ...

DIM WERE the stage lights of New York in early 1843. With the country trying to shake off a nagging recession at the midpoint of the John Tyler administration, economic unease had trickled down to the ...

With Black History Month over, I wanted to continue the stories about some of our collective local history that I have taught in past drama classes. While this is a disturbing and ugly part of our ...

Organisers of London's Winter Wonderland have apologised and removed posters depicting minstrel performers spotted near its circus after visitors branded them 'disgusting'. Two large posters were ...

The performance of Ethiopian minstrels (azmari) in the Gondar area of Northern Ethiopia can be seen in various social settings including life cycle celebrations, annual events of the Ethiopian ...