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Pages: 282
Authors: Stephen Burge Johnson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

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Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy--stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: William John Mahar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in anteb
Introducing Bert Williams
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Camille F. Forbes
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-01 - Publisher: Civitas Books

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It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manag
The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Frank Dumont
Categories: Amateur plays
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The Burning of Cork
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Gerry White
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

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On the night of 11 December 1920 Cork City was to experience an unprecedented night of terror and destruction at the hands of the British forces of law and orde