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Hace 3 días · Though antebellum (minstrel) troupes were white, the form developed in a form of racial collaboration, illustrating the axiom that defined – and continues to define – American music as it developed over the next century and a half: African-American innovations metamorphose into American popular culture when white performers learn ...
Hace 3 días · A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. Historically, drag queens have usually been gay men, and have been a part of gay culture . People do drag for reasons ranging from self-expression to mainstream performance.
12 de abr. de 2024 · Blackface minstrelsy, indigenous American theatrical form that constituted a subgenre of the minstrel show. Intended as comic entertainment, blackface minstrelsy was performed by a group of white minstrels (traveling musicians) with black-painted faces, whose material caricatured the singing and dancing of slaves.
Hace 3 días · Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade.
8 de abr. de 2024 · The term vaudeville, adopted in the United States from the Parisian boulevard theatre, is probably a corruption of vaux-de-vire, satirical songs in couplets, sung to popular airs in the 15th century in the Val-de-Vire (Vau-de-Vire), Normandy, France.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Edwin P. Christy (born May 21, 1815, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died May 21, 1862, New York, N.Y.) was an early American minstrel show performer who founded (c. 1842) the Christy Minstrels, the most important of the early minstrel companies, and who originated the format of the typical minstrel show (q.v.).
14 de abr. de 2024 · A minstrel is a wandering musician who traditionally sang in an unadorned manner, often expressing stories of love and life. In this song, the minstrel represents a voice of wisdom, a messenger who reminds us of the importance of love and its ubiquitous presence in the world.
