This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes.
- Adams and Lee [1]
- Backus' Minstrels
- Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels [2]
- Bryant's Minstrels [3]
- Buckley's Serenaders (a.k.a. Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders) [4]
- Callender's Georgia Minstrels [5]
- Campbell's Minstrels [4]
- Christy Minstrels (a.k.a. George Christy Minstrels) [4]
- Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels
- Ethiopian Serenaders (a.k.a. Boston Minstrels, Ethiopian Melodists, Ethiopian Minstrels) [6]
- Gavitt's Original Ethiopian Serenaders [7]
- George Mitchell Minstrels
- Georgia Minstrels, later Haverly's European Minstrels [8]
- Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels [9]
- Honey Boy Hotchkiss Minstrels [10]
- Kunkel's Nightingales [11]
- Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels [12]
- Ole Bull Band of Serenaders [11]
- Ordway's Aeolians [11]
- Sable Brothers and Sisters [13]
- Sable Harmonists [13]
- San Francisco Minstrels [14]
- Sanford's Opera Troupe (a.k.a. Sanford's Minstrels) [15]
- Virginia Minstrels (a.k.a. Virginia Serenaders) [4]
- White's Serenaders (a.k.a. White's Minstrels) [16]
- Wood's Minstrels (a.k.a. Christy and Wood's Minstrels) [17]
See also
References
- ^ October and November 1890, S.S.Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal.
- ^ Toll, Robert C. (1974). Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 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. p. 180. ISBN 0-19-509641-X.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 200.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 37-8.
- ^ Lott, 1993, p. 37: an all-black minstrel troupe.
- ^ Bernard L. Peterson (1997). The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960: A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatres, and Performing Groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-313-29537-9.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 146.
- ^ Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, 6 May 1920.
- ^ a b c Mahar 362.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 138: an all-female minstrel troupe.
- ^ a b Mahar 363.
- ^ McCoy, Sharon D. ""The Trouble Begins at Eight": Mark Twain, the San Francisco Minstrels, and the Unsettling Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy". American Literary Realism. pp. 232–248. doi: 10.1353/alr.0.0022. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Mahar 359–60.
- ^ Mahar 359.
- ^ Mahar 360.