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Language: en
Pages: 282
Pages: 282
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy--stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans
Language: en
Pages: 476
Pages: 476
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-01 - Publisher: Civitas Books
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
Language: en
Pages: 176
Pages: 176
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Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
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