tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083352356164153721.post5321451187831767261..comments2024-02-26T02:55:07.772-05:00Comments on AfriClassical: Minstrelsy, Racist To Its Core, Is Morally RepugnantWilliam J. Zickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17779551426810486040noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083352356164153721.post-59736858772893866942009-04-18T11:26:00.000-04:002009-04-18T11:26:00.000-04:00I am very interested in reactions to minstrelsy at...I am very interested in reactions to minstrelsy at the time, in Britain. It was clearly very popular and a real encouragement to popular racism at a time when Africa was being divided up between European powers. Michael Pickering's recent book makes it clear that British minstrelsy was rather different to US minstrelsy as it was not trying to deal with the reactions of its audience to a large local minority (there were very few blacks in the UK compared with the US). I have looked up in The Times archives in London, and as far as I can see no contemporary commentator from the elite spoke of the racism in mintrelsy. Minstresly declined rapidly after 1905 in Britain, but not because of objections to its racism. If anyone knows where I can find more about this, I would be interested.John Mullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04936937247932651511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083352356164153721.post-70809586837701093352007-10-07T22:53:00.000-04:002007-10-07T22:53:00.000-04:00a couple hundred!!!?most days i'd swear nobody was...a couple hundred!!!?<BR/><BR/>most days i'd swear nobody was paying attention to my blather. 'linking' is the key word in this blogging phenomenon, or in another word, communication.<BR/><BR/>Another thought. I have a half-written piece in my drafts folder on Alan Lomax and Jelly Roll Morton. I should finish that and post it...<BR/><BR/>very best to you<BR/><BR/>Eddie CampbellEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.com