the black & white minstrel show

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For "audiophiles", music reproduced in analogue from vinyl presents "distortions", in other words imperfections in the sound, making it more natural and pleasant than the sound produced by magnetic recording, which is considered more precise but also colder and more impersonal. As you may know I previously expressed my dismay about the continuance of the BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW.

He continued: "If black faces are to be shown, for heaven’s sake let coloured artists be employed and with dignity". It seems to be absurd to imagine that people who are not already racially prejudiced could possible be in the some way contaminated by the Minstrels. The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show. The programme was launched as a regular Saturday-night programme in 1958 and by 1963 was attracting 16.You must take reasonable care to ensure that an item is repackaged so that it arrives back in the same condition it was despatched.

In part, this was simply because by the late-1970s variety shows in general were proving to be less popular with television audiences than they had been in the 1950s and ‘60s. The BBC1 television programme was cancelled in 1978 as part of a reduction in variety programming (by this point, the blackface element had been reduced), [18] while the stage show continued. A touring version toured continuously from 1960 until 1987, with a second company touring Australia and New Zealand from 1962 to 1965, 1969 to 1971, and 1978 to 1979. Minstrel shows had become a long-established feature of British music halls and seaside entertainment since the success of acts such as the Virginia Minstrels in Liverpool in the 1840s and Christy's Minstrels in London in the 1850s.In the process, to the extent described in the privacy policy, your data may be transferred to the USA and processed there. The presence of black performers on the Black and White Minstrel Show was less a measure of progress than a sign of just how restricted the opportunities were for regular employment. It’s all very well people who are not black saying ‘I didn’t think about it that way’”, he told them, “it’s the people who are black” whose views surely needed to be taken into account. My examination of home movies, held in archives such as MACE and the Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland indicates that the blackface at the heart of The Black and White Minstrel Show did make an impression on viewers, as ordinary Britons blacked up as minstrels in local pageants, parades and fairs throughout the postwar period.