Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

Organisers of London's Winter Wonderland have apologised and removed posters depicting minstrel performers spotted near its circus after visitors branded them 'disgusting'. Two large posters were ...

Minstrel shows were in their heyday from the 1830s and through the Civil War, endured during Reconstruction then faded. White performers darkened their faces and wore shredding clothing in imitation ...

The performance of Ethiopian minstrels (azmari) in the Gondar area of Northern Ethiopia can be seen in various social settings including life cycle celebrations, annual events of the Ethiopian ...