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Minstrelsy
Minstrelsy meaning
The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel. | A group of minstrels. | Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
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In a statement, the club called the blackface minstrelsy of the past “a racist and vile form of entertainment,” and distanced Zulu parade makeup from the blackface worn by people intending to mock African-Americans.
Start of literary career A copy of Scott's Minstrelsy in the National Museum of Scotland As a boy, youth and young man, Scott was fascinated by the oral traditions of the Scottish Borders.
They included "self-same", "hue", "minstrelsy", "murky", "carol", and "chaunt".