'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 ...

A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation’s cultural life.

Western Australia’s leading pacer Minstrel (Rocknroll Hanover) gave an ominous warning to his forthcoming rivals in the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “So now any black person’s photo on a box is racism? Give me a break.” That message was one of many that crossed my screen after ...

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 ...

One year after The Minstrel Show, what’s next for the Hall of Justus? For our Oct. 5, 2005 issue, Grayson Currin joined Little Brother and their Hall of Justus entourage–L.E.G.A.C.Y., The Away Team, ...

Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

Jo Ellen Bickmeier was Jo Ellen Sylvester back then, a sixth-grader at Bloomington’s Arlington Heights Elementary School appearing in a 90-minute Friday evening minstrel show called “The Darktown ...