minstrel

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This song, also known as “The Old Folks at Home,” became the most-performed song of 19th-century minstrel shows, and was adopted as the state song of Florida, through which the Suwannee River flows, in 1935.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

His father, who died when Marshall was 10, occasionally sang in a minstrel act and Marshall’s sister, actor Joanne Dru, worked as a showgirl at the Copa Club.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2024

White minstrel performers like Joel Walker Sweeney were credited with popularizing the instrument that inspired a vital part of popular music in the country seen as "hillbilly" music.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2024

But then when we start getting into the minstrel, it’s not about who you are, it’s about what has been put on to you.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

His appeal, his tears, moved all the gentry listening there; but now they saw the crier and the minstrel come from Odysseus’ hall, where they had slept.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer