Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right, until it ended in the United States with the U. S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Early blackface minstrels were all male, so cross-dressing white men also played black women who were often portrayed either as unappealingly and grotesquely mannish ; in the matronly, mammy mold ; or highly sexually provocative.

Early blackface minstrels often said that their material was largely or entirely authentic to African-American culture ; John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You, said that such claims were likely to be untrue.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

After reacquiring the rights to his early material in 2000, Rock released The History of Rock, a collection of remixed and re-recorded songs from The Polyfuze Method and Early Mornin Stoned Pimp.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

An Early Dynastic II king ( Ensi ) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh ( c. 2, 600 BCE ), was commended for military exploits against Humbaba guardian of the Cedar Mountain, and was later celebrated in many later poems and songs in which he was claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.

Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Early covers, especially those done under the " Virgin Killers " name, were punk songs by Connor Neeson The Ramones, Aron mc Garrigle The Dead Boys and others.

Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons.

Among the last songs Larry Norman recorded were two ( Back To The Dust and Walking Backwards ) with the German Christian singer / songwriter Sarah Brendel for her record " Early Morning hours ".

The CD " Private World: The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972 / 3 " includes their versions of songs by Otis Redding, Gary US Bonds, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las and Muddy Waters.

Early post-War collections were recorded by Suzanne Danco, Anton Dermota and Gérard Souzay ( all before 1953 ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ( 1954 ), Hans Hotter ( 1954 ), Erna Berger ( 1956 ), Heinrich Rehfuss ( 1955 ) and Elisabeth Schumann ( 1958 ), and important individual songs by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and Elisabeth Höngen.

Early in his career, Gaye had been affected by events such as the 1965 Watts riots and asked himself once, " with the world exploding around me, how am I supposed to keep singing love songs?

Early hillbilly also borrowed elements of the blues and drew upon more aspects of 19th-century pop songs as hillbilly music evolved into a commercial genre eventually known as country and western and then simply country.

Early such recordings included Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles ' " Your Love "; and Chip E .' s " The Jack Trax " record, featuring the songs “ It ’ s House ” and “ Time to Jack ”, each of which used complex rhythms, simple bassline, sampling technology, and sparse vocals.

Early on, the band began by playing the Consumers songs that Cutler had written, with lyrics changed to fit Cancer's singing style, before concentrating on composing new material like " Black Cross " ( issued as their first single, featuring Pat Smear of The Germs on guitar ) and a fast-paced punk song called " Party Time " ( which was later slowed down and reworked on their 1983 debut album and sole studio release, Sleep in Safety.

# Early meeting phase where men and women sing songs and recite poems to one another.

Early editions of the album were accompanied by a six-track sampler CD for a planned album of children's songs entitled Up the Wooden Hills.

Early in the breeding season, the male sings from high perches in the tallest trees, but as the season progresses, it sings somewhat shorter and less elaborate songs from lower perches.

Early musical traditions during the 17th and 18th century saw the emergence of more complex carols, away from the repetitive ceremonial songs.

Early on in his career, CA worked with the late Geff Rushton ( John Balance ) of Coil, who wrote a handful of songs for them and who was an important supporter and enabler.

Early in Williams's music career, she opened for Joan Baez, who would make her relatively well known by recording some of her songs ( Williams also dueted with Baez on Ring Them Bells ).

The same year, ForeFront Records put together a compilation album titled The Early Years, that covered ten songs from her earliest releases: Rebecca St. James, GOD and Pray.

Early British pressings of the first Tom Tom Club album featured shorter versions of " Genius of Love " and " Wordy Rappinghood ," but to capitalize on the club success of these songs, Island Records reissued the album with the full 12-inch versions in 1982.

Early folklorists tended to reflect contemporary theories and beliefs, including the view that singing games were a form of pagan survivalism, which led Alice Gomme to conclude that ' London Bridge Is Broken Down ' reflected a memory of child sacrifice, or ' devolution ', which assumed that children's songs must have devolved down to children from adult culture and did not allow for innovation by children themselves.

Early experiments are often designed to provide mean-unbiased estimates of treatment effects and of experimental error.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button .< ref >* Patrick Stack.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early pre-bluegrass traditional music was often accompanied by the cello.

Early endosomes are often located in the periphery of the cell, and receive most types of vesicles coming from the cell surface.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early styles of karate are often generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, named after the three cities from which they emerged.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

* Provision of benefits to members: Early trade unions, like Friendly Societies, often provided a range of benefits to insure members against unemployment, ill health, old age and funeral expenses.

In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the " Dark Ages ", but with the creation of these subdivisions use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

Early heavy machine guns were often water-cooled ; while very effective, the water also added considerable weight to an already bulky design.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of contemporary artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

Early MUMPS programmers would often store a structure of related information as a delimited string, parsing it after it was read in ; this saved disk access time and offered considerable speed advantages on some hardware.

Early science fiction about Mars often involved the first voyages to the planet, sometimes as an invasion force, more often for the purposes of exploration.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

Early contact was often charged with tension and emotion, but also had moments of friendship, cooperation, and intimacy.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).