minstrel
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These would influence the American musical, but also shaping the genre were homegrown entertainments—the minstrel show, the revues of Florenz Ziegfeld, vaudeville and burlesque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The screams wouldn’t have reached the Hollywood Hills, where Bill Whitten wound down after a typical Sunday cooking Southern-style collard greens and cornbread in his eclectic home filled with African and Black American minstrel art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
“He wears the cloak and scepter of the American minstrel; he’s that guy,” said Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and Elliott’s longtime friend.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Blackface is an American theatrical minstrel practice that dates to the mid to late 1800s, in which White traveling musicians painted their faces black and for comic effect mimicked the singing and dancing of slaves.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
They were joined by a minstrel, who was glad to share their bread and cheese and pay for his entertainment by singing a lay which John-go-in-the-Wynd picked out on the harp.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
NM: It’s such a complicated dance, to try to dismiss them as minstrels while also understanding the quality of their work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
During the Middle Ages, minstrels were retained by royal courts to provide pleasant atmosphere.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
The composer and songwriter Stephen Foster, a white Pittsburgher, wrote the 1853 melody, which blackface minstrels made into a hit.
From Salon ● May 5, 2022
Not to mention “My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place” by the American Standards, minstrels of the American Standard Company, maker of toilets.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013
He looked inside and saw gathered there King Phillip, Queen Rosemary, the Princess Pea, twenty noble people, a juggler, four minstrels, and all the king’s men.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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