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Minstrel Shows
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Minstrel shows were a type of American entertainment that originated before the American Civil War and continued to be popular throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. The show consisted of white performers appearing in blackface (though there was the occasional troupe of authentically black performers that popped up every now and then), often sitting in a semicircle on the stage and taking turns performing a variety of acts. The shows often had two emcees known as Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones, named for the percussion instruments they traditionally played: a tambourine and a pair of animal ribs. The shows were heavily based on mocking and lampooning stereotypical black culture, but the music was also taken seriously for its artistic merit. The minstrel show is significant for several reasons: Minstrel shows were the first uniquely American form of artistic expression. Like Vaudeville and Burlesque, they were Variety Shows, featuring a mix of song, dance, sketch comedy and stand-up comedy. These forms combined with aspects of Operetta contributed to the development of American Musical Theater. The minstrel show was one of the few ways that actual black performers were seen by a large audience. They would also appear in blackface and often disguised the fact that they were actually black. There were, however, several famous black minstrel show performers. The musical performance portions were initially white parodies of black music, but the parodies became so popular that they spawned a legitimate genre of African-influenced music. Although minstrel shows no longer exist, they have had an enormous impact on American pop culture, with minstrel songs such as Camptown Races and Oh! Susanna becoming highly familiar tunes, and many modern listeners being unaware of their minstrel origins. Many people in modern times might also be unaware that the popular joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?" is connected to minstrel shows as well. Some people such as film director Spike Lee have argued that modern American entertainment media starring black people is rooted in the legacy of minstrel shows. Definitely not to be confused with Wandering Minstrel. |
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Tom and Jerry: The short Casanova Cat contains a scene where Tom blackens Jerry's face with cigar smoke and then forces Jerry to tap-dance for his girlfriend Toodles by lighting up the metal plate Jerry was standing on, like it was a little minstrel show. | |
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Looney Tunes: At the end of Fresh Hare, when the firing squad prepares to execute Bugs, Elmer tells him that he can make one last wish. Bugs suddenly sings "Dixie" and the scene then, in a Non Sequitur, transitions into a minstrel show, where Elmer, Bugs and the firing squad, now all in blackface, perform the chorus of "Camptown Races". A variant in Mississippi Hare: Right after the Exploding Cigar fiasco in which he gets an Ash Face, a banjo is put in Colonel Shuffle's hands while Bugs sings "Camptown Races" besides him. |
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On Mad Men, Roger Sterling performs one at his wedding reception. As the series is set in the early 1960s and therefore on edge of where the such acts began to be commonly viewed as inappropriate, it causes a bit of uneasiness with some audience members. | |
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At the end of Fresh Hare, when the firing squad prepares to execute Bugs, Elmer tells him that he can make one last wish. Bugs suddenly sings "Dixie" and the scene then, in a Non Sequitur, transitions into a minstrel show, where Elmer, Bugs and the firing squad, now all in blackface, perform the chorus of "Camptown Races". | |
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Given an oblique reference in The Hunting of the Snark. When the Banker is driven mad by the Bandersnatch, his face turns black and he "rattled a couple of bones". In other words, he is behaving like the Mr. Bones character from a minstrel show. | |
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White Christmas includes a minstrel show sequence as part of the Show Within a Show. The (white) performers are not in blackface. | |
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In The Jazz Singer, Al Jolson plays a young Jewish man who longs to be a popular singer instead of a religious cantor as his father wants him to be. The songs that Jolson sings, however, are minstrel show tunes sung on blackface. The most popular song is "Mammy," which was often parodied in bizarre cartoons of the time. | |
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In Holiday Inn, released in 1942, has a minstrel show sequence that includes blackface. | |
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A variant in Mississippi Hare: Right after the Exploding Cigar fiasco in which he gets an Ash Face, a banjo is put in Colonel Shuffle's hands while Bugs sings "Camptown Races" besides him. | |
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Sir Roderick Glossop appears in blackface to entertain his fiancee's young son in Thank You, Jeeves. Bertie Wooster also smears on some shoe polish as part of a Zany Scheme to blend in with a visiting minstrel troop and escape a Shotgun Wedding. | |
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The 1936 film version of Show Boat includes an in-story minstrel show performance of the song "Gallivantin' Aroun'", with Irene Dunne in blackface. | |
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In the All in the Family episode "Birth of the Baby", Archie's lodge puts on a minstrel show. When Mike argues that this offends black people, Archie says that it won't, because they are not allowed in anyway. | |
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Screen Songs: The 1948 short Camptown Races is about a minstrel show performed by Funny Animals. | |
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In Little Town on the Prairie, Pa Ingalls and his friends dress in blackface and put on a minstrel show for the town. | |
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Bowdlerise: Many songs that were written for minstrel shows remain popular today, notably the works of Stephen Foster, but are generally described as "early American songs" and are treated as children's songs without reference to their minstrel origins. Most of the racist language is quietly Bowdlerized. | |
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As mentioned in The Black and White Minstrel Show example, it was first broadcast in 1957 but continued to air until 1978 and did live performances until 1989, long after minstrel shows were considered unacceptable in most media. | |
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In Utopia, Limited, the king of the ambiguously brown Utopians convenes a cabinet meeting with his white English advisersnote collecively known as "The Flowers of Progress" and asks how such meetings are handled in England, for the Utopians desire to be like the English in all ways.Why? A major target for Gilbert's satire in this operetta was the uncritical adoption of British ways by its colonies, most notably India. The meeting proceeds in the style of a Christy Minstrel act. The scene's song, "Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses" uses a minstrel show tune with original lyrics. The advisers do not wear blackface, if only because doing so for just the one scene would be logistically impractical in a stage play, but many productions put the Utopians in brownface or simply cast actors of appropriate ethnicities if such are available. | |
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