Minstrelsy

Question 1

pop culture

Answer 1

combined folk culture (poor) and high cultre (rich) into something everyone liked

Question 2

minstrelsy

Answer 2

blackface entertainment

Question 3

Thomas “daddy” rice

Answer 3

creator of blackface and jim crow

Question 4

zip coon

Answer 4

think Disney (zippidy doo dah)

Question 5

VA minstrels

Answer 5

Dan Emmett was leader

Question 6

minstrel ensemble

Answer 6

acted like happy go lucky dymb slaves (not real); listened to African slave songs and copied them (fiddle banjo tambourine bones)

Question 7

influence on aa

Answer 7

lots thought this shit was real

Question 8

minstrel show; minstrel line, olio, walk around finale

Answer 8

minstrel line: introd by interlocutor, enmsebles and individual acts

olio: danicing comedy, whatever was best
finale: one act play (plantation life) ended with cakewalk(parody of white dancing)

Question 9

black minstrel performers;

Answer 9

master juba, ga minstrels, james bland (most famous; song was va state song for long time)

Question 10

legacy

Answer 10

false charac of AAs, black music and dance

Question 11

Stephen foster

Answer 11

19th century songwriter, wrote parlor and minstrel songs, didn’t like minstrelsy, so sold them off, later ought for them back

Question 12

Hutchinson family

Answer 12

advocates for abolition and abstinence