Minstrel shows dominated popular show business in the U. S. from that time through into the 1890s, also enjoying massive popularity in the UK and in other parts of Europe.

North American stand-up comedy has its roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century including vaudeville, English Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as Mark Twain and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics.

Minstrel shows used African American elements in musical performances, but only in simplified ways ; storylines in the shows depicted blacks as natural-born slaves and fools, before eventually becoming associated with abolitionism.

Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, happy-go-lucky, and musical.

Minstrel performers from the last days of the shows, such as Uncle Dave Macon, helped popularize the banjo and fiddle in modern country music.

In " flashback " sequences, a number of actual Minstrel veterans, including Scatman Crothers, Freeman Davis ( aka " Brother Bones "), Ned Haverly, Phil Arnold, " endmen " Cotton Watts and Slim Williams, the dancing team of Boyce and Evans, and the comic duo Ches Davis and Emmett Miller, perform in the roles they popularized in Minstrel shows.

Minstrel shows parodied the Hutchison's yodeling with their own, calling it " Tyrolesian business ".

Minstrel shows toured the same circuits as opera companies, circuses, and European entertainers, with venues ranging from lavish opera houses to makeshift tavern stages.

He then became a popular act on television variety shows, was the host of the Black and White Minstrel Show, and was given his own show called Cuddles and Company.

Some of the Troupe's more recent popular shows include " The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel ," which satirized entrenched attitudes among liberals and bigots during the Civil Rights Struggle, Seeing Double, about a two-state solution in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, Ripped VanWinkle which explores the gap between the optimism of 1968 and the 1988 reality. Offshore, about the real cost of Globalization, Eating It, about genetic engineering and profit driven science, 1600 Transylvania Avenue, about corporate government feeding on public wealth, GodFellas, a farce exposing the dangers of Fundamentalism to Democracy, and Making a Killing, about war propaganda, and the plight of Iraqis contaminated by depleted uranium.

Minstrel shows spread to London by 1846m and remained a major fixture in London until at least the 1880s.

Minstrel shows generally used African instruments and dance, and featured performers with their faces blackened, a technique called blackface.

Minstrel shows were generally advertised as though the music of the shows was in an African American style, though this was often not true.

At stud, she produced only two other foals, but one of these was Fleur who produced the 1977 Epsom Derby winner The Minstrel Nijinsky was a big, powerful horse standing 16. 3 hands high, resembling his dam rather than his sire in stature.

By 1896, as his fame progressed, Bob Cole produced four “ Genuine Negro songs by a Genuine Negro Minstrel ” that were published by Brooks and Denton of New York and London.

Ian Anderson had produced Steeleye Span ’ s album Now We Are Six in 1974 and first demonstrated a clear interest in more traditional sound on Minstrel in the Gallery ( 1975 ), but it was in 1977 with the release of Songs from the Wood ( 1977 ) that Anderson took the band into electric folk territory.

A. D. Schofield and Julia Say produced a biography and tune book, The Border Minstrel, published by the Northumbrian Pipers ' Society in 1997.

* Walter Scott used the first two stanzas in the sixth canto of his narrative poem " The Lay of the Last Minstrel " ( 1805 ).

# his poem of The Minstrel, of which the first book was published in 1771 and the second in 1774, and which constitutes his true title to remembrance, winning him the praise of Samuel Johnson.

The first singing telegram in the UK is said to have been performed by Mike Collins aka The wandering Minstrel who is still performing fully personalised songs to this day.

He acted in and directed the first cross-country tour of the Minstrel Show, and his play Olive Pits, co-authored with Mime Troupe member Peter Berg, won the Troupe an Obie Award from the Village Voice.

Coyote directed the first cross-country tour of The Minstrel Show, Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel, a controversial play closed by authorities in several cities.

A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ) and Teenoso ( 1983 ).

In 1808 John exhibited a picture " The Lay of the Last Minstrel " at the Lyceum in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh – the first public exhibition of paintings in that city – and continued for some years to exhibit fancy subjects ; but, although freely and sweetly painted, they were altogether without the force and character which stamped his portrait pictures as the works of a master.

He sings the song in this episode, and much later, in the final episode of DS9 " What You Leave Behind ", The Minstrel Boy is the first musical theme to be heard in the flashback sequence.

Carabao first came into the national spotlight with their third album, Waniphok ( วณ ิ พก-" The Wandering Minstrel "), the title song of which told the story of a blind street musician and became a major hit.

It quickly became popular overseas, particularly so in Britain, where the tradition lasted longer than in the US, occurring on primetime TV as late as 1978 ( The Black and White Minstrel Show ) and 1981.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a popular British musical variety show that featured blackface performers, and remained on British television until 1978.

George Banks ' plays included ' The Slave King ', written for the black actor Ira Aldridge, and ' The Swiss Father '; his popular songs included ' The Minstrel King ', ' Warwickshire Will ', and ' Dandy Jim of Caroline ' based on a negro melody ; and his poetry included ' Daisies in the Grass ' ( 1865 ).

Moore became best known for these Irish Melodies which were enormously popular containing songs such as The Minstrel Boy, The Last Rose of Summer and Oft, in the Stilly Night.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show.

The song became more popular when Robert Archibald Smith paired it with the tune of " Low Down in the Broom " in his Scottish Minstrel book in 1821.

* The Black and White Minstrel Show, a British television and theatre show of the American traditional genre in the 1960s and 1970s

* Guide to American Minstrel Show Collection at Houghton Library, Harvard University

*" Jesse B. Aikin and The Christian Minstrel ", by Paul G. Hammond, American Music, Vol.

* Yankee Minstrel First white American in the Carnival

A review for the 1944 Joseph Lewis film Minstrel Man stated " the music, scored by Ferde Grofé, is an outstanding item.

Minstrel music certainly contained some element of black culture, added onto a base of European tradition with distinct Irish and Scottish folk music influences.

Minstrel instruments were also a mélange: African banjo and tambourine with European fiddle and bones In short, early minstrel music and dance was not true black culture ; it was a white reaction to it.

In 2011, The Wandering Minstrel began giving away full band production audio CDs and DVD music videos of the specially written songs.

A Minstrel Greeting, A fully personalised song performed by A Wandering Minstrel, with a full band production audio CD or DVD music video.

* Scan of " The Minstrel Boy " sheet music from 1895

DOREMI Music Publishing also published music from the original soundtracks of some of the SaGa games that Ito composed as piano sheet music book ; music from Romancing SaGa 3, Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song, and SaGa Frontier were written by Asako Niwa for piano solos of beginning to intermediate difficulty.

The music was edited by RA Smith, and the collection was published at Edinburgh under the name of the Scottish Minstrel ( 1821 – 1824 ).

The note shapes used in Aikin's Christian Minstrel eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations.

After touring with the Rabbit Foot Minstrel Show he worked out of Lafayette and New Iberia in South-West Louisiana with such musicians as Evan Thomas and Bunk Johnson before retiring from music in the 1940s.

The PRC production Hitler's Madman, directed by Douglas Sirk, was picked up by MGM for distribution, and one of PRC's music composers, Leo Erdody, was nominated for an Academy Award for his musical score for PRC's Minstrel Man in 1944.

Burton Lane's music was originally featured in the 1934 Eddie Cantor film Kid Millions, in the number " My Minstrel Man ," sung by a ten-year-old Harold Nicholas to lyrics by Harold Adamson.