minstrel
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Much of the picture is devoted to songs and dances, with the children trying to determine whether this ragtag minstrel is really endowed with supernatural abilities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
White minstrel performers like Joel Walker Sweeney were credited with popularizing the instrument that inspired a vital part of popular music in the country seen as "hillbilly" music.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2024
Redd’s father took him to see traveling minstrel shows when he was a boy, and he was particularly struck by the one-legged tap dancer Peg Leg Bates moving to the rhythm of a trap drummer.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
Tambo and Bones have moved from the minstrel past to the more recent hip-hop present.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022
Gangsta rap—while it may amount to little more than a minstrel show when it appears on MTV today—has its roots in the struggle for a positive identity among outcasts.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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