minstrelsy

Was the blackface scene with Gene Wilder in Silver Streak an important step in how American audiences view minstrelsy?

The Madea films thrive on an ugly mix of minstrelsy and moralism.

The drop below his signal eloquence was a submission to the kind of minstrelsy demanded of anyone, high or low, these days.

I soon thought of this new and amoral cynicism as the most pernicious form of minstrelsy ever created and popularized.

Scotts ballad in the Minstrelsy spoils its own effect by converting the spirit into the devil.

All the wild life of the wood haunted the chapel, and the place was musical with forest minstrelsy.

And then begin the minstrels to make their minstrelsy on divers instruments, with all the melody that they can devise.

At last he arose abruptly and shut down the sash, muffling the minstrelsy at the height of its wildest abandon.

But if the amorous selections of that crude minstrelsy made any impression upon her, she gave no indication.