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Author Strausbaugh summed up as follows: " Some minstrel songs started as Negro folk songs, were adapted by White minstrels, became widely popular, and were readopted by Blacks ," writes Strausbaugh.

" The question of whether minstrelsy was white or black music was moot.

It was a mix, a mutt – that is, it was American music.