[Dixielandjazz] Minstrel shows

[JimDBB at aol.com]

Bill Oakley:   I'm out on a limb about minstrel shows.  I maintain that they 
were not necessarily just blackface shows but that they were entertaining 
vandevillian type of shows and the blackface thing came in as a variation on 
it.  A black musician friend of mine states that they were strictly blackface 
shows.  I can remember seeing minstrel shows in my youth that were not black 
face and I saw some that were part of a circus and they were all black.

     So, can you fill my in on this a bit.

   Regards, Jim Beebe
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