List of blackface minstrel troupes
This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes, a 19th- and 20th-century American form of musical theater.
A
[edit]B
[edit]- Backus' Minstrels
- Barlow Bros. Minstrel, later Great Barlow Minstrels[2][3]
- Barney Fagan's Minstrels[2]
- Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels[4]
- Bryant's Minstrels[5]
- Buckley's Serenaders (also known as Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders)[6]
C
[edit]- Callender's Georgia Minstrels[7]
- Cal. Wagner’s Minstrels[2]
- Campbell's Minstrels[6]
- Carncross' Minstrels[2]
- Chicago Minstrels[2]
- Christy Minstrels (also known as George Christy Minstrels)[6]
D
[edit]E
[edit]- Ethiopian Serenaders (also known as Boston Minstrels, Ethiopian Melodists, Ethiopian Minstrels)[8]
G
[edit]- Gavitt's Original Ethiopian Serenaders[9]
- George Mitchell Minstrels
- Georgia Minstrels, later Haverly's European Minstrels[10]
- George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels[2]
H
[edit]J
[edit]K
[edit]M
[edit]O
[edit]P
[edit]R
[edit]S
[edit]- Sable Brothers and Sisters[16]
- Sable Harmonists[16]
- Sam Hague's Minstrels[2]
- San Francisco Minstrels[17]
- Sanford's Opera Troupe (also known as Sanford's Minstrels)[18]
T
[edit]V
[edit]- Virginia Minstrels (also known as Virginia Serenaders)[6]
W
[edit]- White's Serenaders (also known as White's Minstrels)[19]
- Wood's Minstrels (also known as Christy and Wood's Minstrels)[20]
- W. S. Cleveland and Company[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ October and November 1890, S.S.Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Rice, Edward Le Roy (1911). Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to Date. Kenny Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Coburn's Minstrels". Birmingham Post-Herald. March 8, 1908. p. 23. Retrieved 2025-05-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Johnson's Dixie Minstrels". Yorkville Enquirer. February 28, 1878 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Mahar 362.
- ^ Toll, 1974, p. 138: an all-female minstrel troupe.
- ^ a b Mahar 363.
- ^ McCoy, Sharon D. (2009). ""The Trouble Begins at Eight": Mark Twain, the San Francisco Minstrels, and the Unsettling Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy". American Literary Realism. 41 (3): 232–248. doi:10.1353/alr.0.0022. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Mahar 359–60.
- ^ Mahar 359.
- ^ Mahar 360.