• The blackface minstrel act was a very popular form of entertainment in 19th-century America.

    NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

  • But as time went on, the minstrel show took on a more racist tone.

    NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

  • The following year, there was talk of another minstrel show, but nothing happened.

    NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

  • His face blacked out with burnt cork, Rice perfected the act and sparked the tradition of the minstrel act.

    NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

  • So why are so many black artists so infatuated with the minstrel legacy?

    NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

  • Although there is no history of minstrel shows in Germany, Mr Schendel says "blackface is part of a theatre tradition" in Germany.

    BBC: Germany's Schlosspark Theatre defends 'blackface' actor

  • In his minstrel-show costume, he could be as reckless as he wanted.

    NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

  • Meanwhile, in New Orleans theatres, the stages were overtaken by racist minstrel shows, in which white performers sang and danced in blackface to upbeat tunes.

    BBC: The birthplace of jazz

  • Artist Mark Steven Greenfield is one of several African-American artists who's using the iconic images of the blackface minstrel in his paintings and sculptures.

    NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

  • And in some ways, he says, the crude and outlandish images and behavior that typified the minstrel show are still evident in hip-hop and black comedy.

    NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

  • It is possible, yes, for a minstrel to be profound.

    FORBES: Sidelines

  • The most surprising musical movement that Hines foreshadowed, remarkably, was rap: In 1929, Hines himself performed a monologue in minstrel-show ebonics that could easily be done by Mos Def today.

    WSJ: Fatha Played Well With Others | Earl Hines | By Will Friedwald

  • It lacked the white mockery of the minstrel show.

    BBC: WC Handy's Memphis Blues: The Song of 1912

  • He is hired by the brutish Dunwitty (a barrelling Michael Rapaport) to come up with a fresh idea, and duly delivers a minstrel show, complete with chicken gags and black actors encrusted in blackface.

    NEWYORKER: Bamboozled

  • Even within the confines of musically narrow genres, Cooder allows himself room to stretch, manipulating the song structures of 1930s American music: minstrel folk, country ballads, blues and even the lounge jazz of Chet Baker.

    NPR: A Dustbowl Lament from an American Chameleon

  • And I have the exact same impression of the song because the only versions I've ever heard of it, people have been either looking like they're in a minstrel show or actually are in a minstrel show.

    NPR: Patti Austin, Singing Gershwin's Praises

  • Whatever its reputation, burlesque was no more than the latest version of a popular entertainment that had its origin in the 19th century in touring minstrel shows and which had expanded into permanent variety theatres to cater for the massive growth in America's population.

    ECONOMIST: Joey Faye | The

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