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Showing posts with label Minstrel Show. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Minstrel Show. Show all posts

A Bizarre Minstrel Show in Indiana. Cross-dressing Hoosier State Wing-Ding!

Maybe the Indianapolis, Indiana Photography Studio "National Studio" doesn't seem to appear on the "We Do History...

Blackface Theater. Young Women and Children of Vaudeville photographs by Frank Wendt

There are numerous studies and photographs of blackface in the American theater, but it is a bit less common to see women…and I...

The Blues had a Baby and they Called it These Doofus Racist Guys

Well, what can you say? We COULD be generous and speculate the masks are green and they were going for a spaceman mystery zombie rock vibe,...

Blackface

To those who study or simply enjoy old time music, the interplay between minstrel shows, blackface and musicians has been understood a long ...

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