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Stephen Foster | Blackface Minstrelsy - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy.html
From the website for the PBS American Experience documentary "Stephen Foster" a page of information on the Minstrel Show in the 19th century. |
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Lift Every Voice: Minstrels - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/music/minstrels.html
Companion to the "Music in American Life" exhibit at the University of Virginia Library. Commentary accompanies pictures of original minstrel show programs, illustrations and paraphanalia. |
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Minstrelsy Homepage 1830-1852 - http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/mihp.html
Includes image gallery, songs, texts, notices and reviews, articles, and essays and interpretation of the minstrel show tradition. |
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Minstrel Shows - http://www.musicals101.com/minstrel.htm
Explores the musical tradition. Includes an article by John Kenrick and a typical minstrel program. |
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Africans in America - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h489.html
Information on the origins of the minstrel character, Jim Crow. |
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Black-Face Minstrelsy - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/minstrl.html
Includes images, background and a script sample. |
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Minstrel Show, The - http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html
Page from a site on the Jacksonian era in America provides a short history of the minstrel genre and an exploration of the archetypes it created. |
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American Minstrel Show Collection - http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/tc050.html
Information about the archive held at Princeton University. |
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A Mini Minstral Show - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam358/minstrlsy.html
Includes a typical script, promotional images, and commentary. |
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A Look Back at Minstrelsy - http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa100800a.htm
Read about minstrelsy, and find out why it was popular during the 19th century. |