| Author Name: | Sweet, Frank W. |
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| Topic: | Blackface Minstrelsy |
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This booklet outlines a typical minstrel performance, describes the legacy of minstrel shows on American entertainment, and examines the original convergence to shed light on the antebellum urban proletariat. The author suggests that this peculiar form of performing art was the result of a clashing and eventual melding of elements that first arose in American and Britain consequent to the industrial revolution's impact on society.