minstrelsy

IPA: mˈɪnstrʌɫzi

Examples of "minstrelsy" in Sentences

Further, Weigel's invocation of "minstrelsy" rankles.
Blackface minstrelsy was widely popular but not “respectable.”
A common, seemingly fantastical theme in early minstrelsy was the flamboyant dress of the slave characters.
Richard, who loved "rich meats," and cared little at this time for their usual accompaniment, "minstrelsy," --
By the 1880s, minstrelsy had shed some of its lowbrow reputation and attained a degree of mainstream respectability.
It is certainly no accident that most of the creators of blackface minstrelsy spent time in the city known as “the Queen of the West.”
Tannhäuser is not an invention, though it is to Wagner alone that we owe his association with the famous contest of minstrelsy which is the middle picture in Wagner's drama.
Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves.
And it is much the same with his addiction to vinous revelry, and to the moister kind of minstrelsy; an addiction that proceeds in part from his keen gust of fun, and the happiness he finds in making sport for others as well as for himself: he will drink till the world turns round, but not unless others are at hand to enjoy the turning along with him.