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The Black and White Minstrel Show is a British light entertainment show on BBC prime-time television that ran from 1958 to 1978. The weekly variety show presented traditional American minstrel and country songs, as well as show tunes and music hall numbers, lavishly costumed and often presented with cast members in blackface.
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (July 2023) Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century. The shows were performed by mostly white ...
The Jim Crow persona is a theater character developed by entertainer Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860) and popularized through his minstrel shows. The character is a stereotypical depiction of African-Americans and of their culture. Rice based the character on a folk trickster named Jim Crow that had long been popular among enslaved black people. [1]
Lew Dockstader Bert Williams, shown here in blackface, was the highest-paid African-American entertainer of his day.. This is a list of entertainers known to have performed in blackface makeup, whether in a minstrel show, as satire or historical depiction of such roles, or in a portrayal of a character using makeup as a racial disguise, for whatever reason.
They were the resident dancers on the shows which each week featured stars of the time such as Charlie Drake, Josef Locke, Max Bygraves and Anne Shelton. They appeared on the early series of the Billy Cotton Band Show [2] and appeared in all 20 series of The Black and White Minstrel Show. The Toppers became celebrities in their own right.
This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes. Adams and Lee [1] Backus' Minstrels; Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels [2] Bryant's Minstrels [3] Buckley's Serenaders (a.k.a. Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders) [4] Callender's Georgia Minstrels [5] Campbell's Minstrels [4]
Blackface minstrel shows and films (68 P) Blackface minstrel songs (47 P) Blackface minstrel songwriters (16 P) T. Blackface minstrel troupes (16 P)
The only beneficial factor of these shows for African Americans was probably the financial compensation for the black performers such as Dilward but besides those select few, these minstrel shows were very racist and counter-productive for society. Thomas Dilward was a pioneer in African American culture as well as the entertainment industry.