List of blackface minstrel troupes
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This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes.
- Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels[1]
- Bryant's Minstrels[2]
- Buckley's Serenaders (a.k.a. Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders)[3]
- Callender's Georgia Minstrels[4]
- Campbell's Minstrels[3]
- Christy Minstrels (a.k.a. George Christy Minstrels)[3]
- Ethiopian Serenaders (a.k.a. Boston Minstrels, Ethiopian Melodists, Ethiopian Minstrels)[5]
- Gavitt's Original Ethiopian Serenaders[6]
- George Mitchell Minstrels
- Georgia Minstrels, later Haverly's European Minstrels
- Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels[7]
- Kunkel's Nightingales[8]
- Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels[9]
- Ole Bull Band of Serenaders[8]
- Ordway's Aeolians[8]
- Sable Brothers and Sisters[10]
- Sable Harmonists[10]
- Sanford's Opera Troupe (a.k.a. Sanford's Minstrels)[11]
- Virginia Minstrels (a.k.a. Virginia Serenaders)[3]
- White's Serenaders (a.k.a. White's Minstrels)[12]
- Wood's Minstrels (a.k.a. Christy and Wood's Minstrels)[13]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Toll, Robert C. (1974). Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 199.: an all-black minstrel troupe.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 57.
- ^ a b c d Lott, Eric (1993). Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press, 180. ISBN 0-19-509641-X.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 200.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 37-8.
- ^ Lott, 1993, p. 37: an all-black minstrel troupe.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 146.
- ^ a b c Mahar 362.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 138: an all-female minstrel troupe.
- ^ a b Mahar 363.
- ^ Mahar 359–60.
- ^ Mahar 359.
- ^ Mahar 360.
