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1. ↑ The "Advowry," as it was called, over the Cheshire minstrels lasted until 1756, when the latest minstrel court was held at Chester

2. Just like all the other minstrels.

3. This isn't a minstrel show.

4. One of the minstrels strummed his banjo.

5. But now bring me a minstrel.

6. The end man in a minstrel show.

7. The Negro minstrel is touring the country.

8. Minstrel shows included music, dance and comedy.

9. I'm getting tired of this little minstrel act.

10. The minstrel stopped singing abruptly, and went outside.

11. They hired a minstrel for her birthday party.

12. The young minstrel had a rare, rich voice. Sentencedict.com

13. I shall run off with the first strolling minstrel!

14. By the middle of the century, Blackface minstrel shows had

15. The minstrels paraded out in the same boisterous way they had come in.

16. Blackfaced white performer Emile Subers played with the Great American Minstrels around 1915

17. You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back, Ralf?

18. In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels.

19. There was a minstrel sitting on a stool by the yurt wall.

20. The origins of Blackface date back to the minstrel shows of mid-19th

21. Sir Robin rode north, through the dark forest of Ewing accompanied by his favorite minstrels.

22. 2 Others showed beaming brides and grooms, looking, thanks to the copying process, like black-faced riverboat minstrels.

23. 19 Others showed beaming brides and grooms, looking, thanks to the copying process, like black-faced riverboat minstrels.

24. Well, one time, he gave it to the next minstrel down the street.

25. The minstrel travelled about the country singing songs and poems written by him.

26. The cast's sole survivor from the great Minstrel days says that's a shame.

27. Blackface minstrelsy, indigenous American theatrical form that constituted a subgenre of the minstrel show

28. She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s.

29. Synonyms for Balladeer include troubadour, singer, musician, jongleur, songster, vocalist, bard, minstrel, joculator and trouveur

30. The first of all the negro minstrel shows came to town, and made a sensation.

31. 16 Others showed beaming brides and grooms, looking, thanks to the copying process, like black-faced riverboat minstrels.

32. Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disgused as a minstrel.

33. Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.

34. Beloved traditional jazz Banjoist and “Manhattan Minstrel” Eddy Davis died of Covid-19 on April 7th

35. Till the gentle breath o 'spring Blaws the icy fields awa', The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V

36. Aprowl on the pitiless four, lad! 1920, Marian Storm, “A Woodland Valentine” in Minstrel Weather, New York: Harper, p

37. As the book opens, his latest target is an Atlanta office building, whose security the Wind Minstrel easily defeats.

38. Based on the Busker's gear it can be assumed unlike the minstrel they lack formal education and are a vagrant.

39. The Bards regrouped around their original English poet and minstrel theme and decided they would literally put poetry to music

40. Lou Holtz is an itinerant minstrel, his hand out for a few more coins to sing his song at another stop.

41. For ten minutes he becomes a wandering minstrel, illuminated by the bass-player following him with a torch from the stage.

42. Http://flixdump.com/movie-67481-Download-Bamboozled.htmA frustrated African American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chag

43. The history of Blackface is long and complex, and deeply ingrained in our culture – in vaudeville and minstrel shows and in movies

44. Intended as comic entertainment, Blackface minstrelsy was performed by a group of white minstrels (traveling musicians) with black-painted faces, whose material caricatured the singing and dancing of slaves.

45. Blackface as entertainment emerged from 19th-century minstrel shows that featured white actors in dark makeup, playing characters who embodied stereotypical depictions of African Americans

46. Music and minstrels were very popular at Edward's court, but hunting appears to have been a much less important activity, and there was little emphasis on chivalric events.

47. ‘Bamboozled’ is the Forgotten Gem in Spike Lee’s Career A new Criterion Collection edition of the 2000 film—about a primetime TV minstrel show that becomes a …

48. Merriam Webster defines Blackface as, “dark makeup worn (as by a performer in a minstrel show) in a caricature of the appearance of a black person,” or “a

49. ‘When the solstice lordship settled upon him, he had rousted the minstrels and set great back-alley feasts, lighting the lives of London's poor like a Balefire on a barren heath.’

50. “Aunt Jemima” was a minstrel show character developed during the mid-1850s by a white male in blackface dressed as a black woman, designed to entertain white audiences.

51. Emmett was a member of a blackface troupe known as the Bryant's Minstrels, but he was indignant when he found out that his song had become an unofficial anthem of the Confederacy.

52. Minstrel shows with white performers in Blackface became widespread in popular culture, a form of entertainment that also functioned to dehumanize African Americans and sought to legitimize slavery and oppression.

53. 6 Emmett was a member of a blackface troupe known as the Bryant's Minstrels, but he was indignant when he found out that his song had become an unofficial anthem of the Confederacy.

54. The rugged Blackface character “Jim Crow” was inspired by a black stablehand's eccentric song and dance, Rice's “Jump Jim Crow” was a national sensation, and launched the minstrel craze in the 1830s

55. Similarly, a steward creating a reception for a visiting liege lord would need at least a month to properly prepare ... but, a minstrel might come up with a bawdy song in an afternoon.

56. Traditional folk Ballads began with the anonymous wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages, who handed down stories and legends in these poem-songs, using a structure of stanzas and repeated refrains to remember, retell, and embellish local tales.

57. Minstrel shows helped shape American entertainment, historians acknowledge, but also Belittled and dehumanized blacks as “other.” Washington Post Nov 11, 2015 Her late husband, Walter, Belittled her and preyed on his young female assistants

58. The phrase "Jim Crow" was drawn from a stock character in "minstrel" (vaudeville) shows of the time, in which a white singer and actor would put on black makeup to look like a black man.

59. 1885, Gilbert and Sullivan, “Act 1”, in The Mikado: A wandering minstrel I — / A thing of shreds and patches, / Of Ballads, songs and snatches, / And dreamy lullaby! The poet composed a Ballad praising the heroic exploits of

60. “The wretch, Concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.” ― Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805

61. One of the first Blacks to perform in Blackface for White audiences was William Henry Lane, the inventor of tap dancing who was known to audiences as Master Juba.When Blacks began to work as minstrels in the mid-1840s, becoming established as performers by the 1860s, their contribution ironically did little to alter the tradition.

62. Are not the taxes of these Jem Baggses, these wandering minstrels, the "only rates uninvidious in the levy, ungrudged in the assessment?" Where the intent is so unequivocally kindly, is it not gross and unfeeling to suggest in the modest orchestra a questionable chord, a cracked reed, a cornet out of tune?

63. Coon, a racial slur, used pejoratively to refer to a dark-skinned person of African, Australian Aboriginal, or Pacific island heritage, in usage mainly from the late 19th century until the 1970s Coon Carnival, the original name for the Kaapse Klopse, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa

64. The Lands allotted to Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton, and now adjudged the next Heir Male, were, the Mannor of Dutton, the Advowry of the Minstrels in Cheshire, the Advowson of Poosey Chappel the Lordships of Weston, Preston, Barterton, Little Legh, Nesse in Wirrall, Little Moldesworth, Acton, and Harpesford; and all the Lands which the Ancestors