Race in American Music

October 1, 2018

Popular culture is oddly integrated. Minstrel Shows are an integral part of this phenomenon. Dressing up as black people and portraying black people. Everyone who wasn’t black loved the minstrel show, even people who we see as not being racist enjoyed these shows.

Personally, I truly hate minstrel shows. They are disgustingly derogatory and thieves of African culture.  The fact that the anthem of Texas is the song, Yellow Rose, is absolutely disgraceful.  It always portrayed black people as dumb and less than intelligent human life forms and it is absolutely disgusting.

It wasn’t even just in the south, it is in the north as well in Boston. Same idea just different sheet music.

 

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