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But as time went on, the minstrel show took on a more racist tone.
NPR: The Legacy of Blackface
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The following year, there was talk of another minstrel show, but nothing happened.
NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones
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And in some ways, he says, the crude and outlandish images and behavior that typified the minstrel show are still evident in hip-hop and black comedy.
NPR: The Legacy of Blackface
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It lacked the white mockery of the minstrel show.
BBC: WC Handy's Memphis Blues: The Song of 1912
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He is hired by the brutish Dunwitty (a barrelling Michael Rapaport) to come up with a fresh idea, and duly delivers a minstrel show, complete with chicken gags and black actors encrusted in blackface.
NEWYORKER: Bamboozled
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And I have the exact same impression of the song because the only versions I've ever heard of it, people have been either looking like they're in a minstrel show or actually are in a minstrel show.
NPR: Patti Austin, Singing Gershwin's Praises
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In his minstrel-show costume, he could be as reckless as he wanted.
NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones
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The most surprising musical movement that Hines foreshadowed, remarkably, was rap: In 1929, Hines himself performed a monologue in minstrel-show ebonics that could easily be done by Mos Def today.
WSJ: Fatha Played Well With Others | Earl Hines | By Will Friedwald