Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
The minstrel show or minstrelsy was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits variety acts dancing and music performed by white people in blackface or especially after the Civil War black people in blackface.Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted lazy buffoonish superstitious happy-go-lucky and musical. The minstrel show began with brief burlesques and comic entr’actes in the early 1830s and emerged as a full-fledged form in the next decade.
