How to use in-sentence of “minstrel”:
+ Songwriter Septimus Winner created an elaborated version of the children’s song, called “Ten Little Injuns”, in 1868 for a minstrel show.
+ By the mid 19th century, blackface minstrel shows became a distinctive artform.
+ Rice is known as the “Father of the Minstrel Show”.
+ African-Americans started influencing mainstream American music in the 19th century when they performed in minstrel shows.
+ Kevin Starr, the State Librarian, appointed him Roving Minstrel in his own chautauqua, traveling every other month to rural libraries in order to give entertaining and educational lecture-concerts on the subject of popular music.
+ Foster wrote 28 songs for the minstrel stage.
Example sentences of “minstrel”:
+ Early in the 20th century, blackface came off the minstrel show.
+ By the turn of the 20th century, the minstrel show was a shadow of its former popularity.
+ Many of these songs were written for minstrel groups of the period such as the Sable Harmonists and the Christy Minstrels.
+ He has disguised himself as a wandering minstrel to be near the village girl he loves Yum Yum.
+ A minstrel was a composer of the medieval time period.
+ A typical minstrel song by Foster is set for solo voice with a four or five part chorus in the refrain and a short instrumental section intended for a dance on the stage.
+ The song did not win the contest but set Foster on the road to minstrel songwriting.
+ The creation of the American minstrel show is credited to Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice, an actor whose performance of the song “Jump Jim Crow” in the dress of an aged African American created an overnight sensation in Pittsburgh.
+ He becamGrand Opera House which put on minstrel shows rather than proper operas.
+ A minstrel was also a name for black musicians in America of the 19th century and white musicians who appeared in blackface.
+ Early in the 20th century, blackface came off the minstrel show.
+ By the turn of the 20th century, the minstrel show was a shadow of its former popularity.