1) Former popular entertainment
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The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface. Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, happy-go-lucky, and musical. The min...
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indigenous American theatrical form comprising a group of blackfaced white minstrels whose material caricatured the singing and dancing of slaves. It ... [4 related articles]
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Form of entertainment in which performers, some with blackened faces, sing, dance, and tell jokes. Minstrel shows were popular in the USA about 1850-1930 and later in the UK. They date from the...
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n] - a troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes
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noun a variety show in which the performers are made up in blackface
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