'Minstrel in the Gallery,' Jethro Tull's eighth LP, is being remastered and expanded for its 40th birthday. The band's fifth consecutive U.S. Top 10 album -- and the last to feature the longtime ...
The new book “Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop,” by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen, explores the history of minstrelsy, dissecting how it became the most popular form of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In spring 1975, had you been in the vicinity of Radio Monte Carlo’s premises in Monaco, you might have seen Ian Anderson dismount ...
If U Black Niggas Network, the satirical television station at the center of the 2005 Atlantic Records debut by Durham’s Little Brother, had been a real cable network, the tone of the broadcast would ...
Every film production has its own stories of research and discovery. For Stephen Foster producers Beth Hager and Randy MacLowry, creating the dances Stephen Foster would have seen was a major ...
Let’s begin with a little history lesson. In the long, long ago of 1992, Square Enix released the fantastic Romancing SaGa on the Super Famicon in Japan. The fourth SaGa game, it revolutionized the ...
It’s been nearly 200 years since white performers first started painting their faces black to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows across the United States. It was racist and offensive then, and ...