How To Use Minstrelsy In A Sentence
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The song and minstrelsy of Wales have from the earliest period of its history been nurtured by its eisteddfodau.
The Poetry of Wales
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Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Cole discusses such sensitive topics as female impersonation and minstrelsy in order to deconstruct and elaborate on the many nuances of the concert party theater.
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In their dancing, in their minstrelsy and then in ragtime, black Americans were insisting on setting European-style music free by refusing to be restricted to a ground beat.
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As soon as the Castilians came in sight, the Tlascalans set up their yell of defiance, rising high above the wild barbaric minstrelsy of shell, atabal, and trumpet, with which they proclaimed their triumphant anticipations of victory over the paltry forces of the invaders.
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
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Tap dance evolved from plantation dances and minstrelsy, and the Broadway musical grew out of burlesque and operettas.
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Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Blackface minstrelsy was widely popular but not “respectable.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war.
Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
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And when the philosophers have done and performed their commandments, then the minstrels begin to do their minstrelsy, everych in their instruments, each after other, with all the melody that they can devise.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Tannhäuser is not an invention, though it is to Wagner alone that we owe his association with the famous contest of minstrelsy which is the middle picture in Wagner's drama.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Such characters emerged in late eighteenth-century plays and sheet music, and became mainstays of nineteenth-century minstrelsy.
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Still let me sing thy praises, gracious Love, though I am entering on the days of fogeydom, and my minstrelsy is something rusty.
Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
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Further, Weigel's invocation of "minstrelsy" rankles.
The M Word
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But any reader might be pardoned for not at once divining that the double rillet of minstrelsy, on page 37, was the Troubadour and the Trouvere, nor for refusing to read pages 155 and 156 without a tolerable outfit of information upon the historical points and personages there catalogued.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
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He documents the rise and fall of minstrelsy in an impressive, sometimes dizzying chronicle of long-forgotten names that made me wish the book had an audio component.
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A common, seemingly fantastical theme in early minstrelsy was the flamboyant dress of the slave characters.
A Renegade History of the United States
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It is certainly no accident that most of the creators of blackface minstrelsy spent time in the city known as “the Queen of the West.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Richard, who loved "rich meats," and cared little at this time for their usual accompaniment, "minstrelsy," --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
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And it is much the same with his addiction to vinous revelry, and to the moister kind of minstrelsy; an addiction that proceeds in part from his keen gust of fun, and the happiness he finds in making sport for others as well as for himself: he will drink till the world turns round, but not unless others are at hand to enjoy the turning along with him.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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A word may be added concerning Lhamon's prose style, perhaps derived from his long immersion in minstrelsy.
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By the 1880s, minstrelsy had shed some of its lowbrow reputation and attained a degree of mainstream respectability.
A Renegade History of the United States
