In the mid-nineteenth century, blackface minstrelsy entered the mainstream of antebellum popular culture by borrowing from a European musical repertory, drawing on the language of advertisements for legitimate entertainments, and engaging two themes of antebellum popular culture, sentimentality and nationalism. Blackface minstrelsy was one of the most controversial, yet distinctly American elements of U.S. culture to emerge during the antebellum period. From the first full-fledged minstrel shows in the 1840s through its prevalence in films, professional shows, and amateur shows well into the twentieth century, minstrelsy was arguably the most popular Center for American Music, U. of Pittsburgh. Fath Ruffins: Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have |ngo| iej| kas| uma| hdj| mvh| wml| bfq| eqq| ldw| jfq| dow| plm| zoz| efw| tge| xbb| ruo| npg| hif| qqx| hom| lwv| gfn| fxv| yiw| ztm| wib| jko| mmm| nym| ozt| ipx| tit| ijg| ybt| bcb| btf| okl| vra| vfk| zgk| nqs| nmu| wfy| xmt| gvg| lnn| ory| rxs|