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minstrel music

music genre associated with variety shows employing racist caricature and blackface
Class type of: musical theater, music of North America Q1937548

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
music genre
Inception
1830[5]
Subclass of
musical theater, music of North America
Country of origin
United States[4]
Described by source
Oxford Bibliographies Online[6]
Different from
Minstrel, minstrel song[7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en minstrelsy en American minstrel music en American minstrel song en American minstrel songs en American minstrelsy en blackface minstrel music en blackface minstrelsy en Ethiopian opera (minstrel music) en Ethiopian operas (minstrel music) en Ethiopian songs (minstrel music) en minstrel en minstrel music en minstrel show en minstrel song de Minstrel-Musik tr minstrel müziği
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh95008868
AllMusic genre/style ID
ma0000011864
FAST ID
1023489
J9U entity ID
987007563662705171
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014026939
MusicBrainz genre ID
fb691c08-12a7-4f7e-ac18-9ba3fe624784
Rate Your Music genre ID
minstrelsy
Yale LUX ID
concept/5f722218-74f8-4a7c-9b0b-84debc66cce9

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Summary

minstrel music is a music genre[1]. It is a type of musical theater[2] and music of North America[3].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → musical theater, music of North America
    Instance of → music genre
    Library of Congress Authorities ID → sh95008868
    FAST ID → 1023489
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007563662705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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