So people would watch a a guy with tar on his face act like either: >a "jiggaboo" lobotomized acting 'zippity doo dah' black or a >"coon dandy" which is a black trying to act like a white guy. And this was apprently so amusing people watched these every weekend for thier entire lives. Seems a bit pathological to me.
It's just entertainment anon, even today people enjoy watching edgy shit for fun
Minstrel shows were popular because they combined music, comedy, and spectacle into one of America's first mass-entertainment formats while giving audiences humor based on racial stereotypes they already accepted, often allowing white viewers to enjoy Black cultural influences without challenging the racial hierarchy of the time.
>>18506335>allowing white viewers to enjoy Black cultural influences without challenging the racial hierarchy of the time.Like Elvis, or Eminem.
And this is how Japanes saw whites.
>>18506329Blacks were basically seen as a race of silly cartoon characters before animation existed
Minstrels were basically cartoons/sitcoms like >>18506343 says, similar to low brow shit like family guy. 1880s entertainment had hierarchy:>Vaudeville This was similar to tiktok doom scrolling, it was 1-3 minute acts, a juggler would come on, then science guy showing off a chemical reaction, then a knife thrower. Total brain rot. >Burlesque showsAimed at young men and edgy older men. It was mix of stand up comedy, quick fights and "girlie shows" (which are similar to anime panty shots, rathre then stripping)>Minstrel showsEntertainment for solid working class people, it made fun of blacks, asians, rednecks (usually a british aristocrat having to deal with southern hick), and also had peppy music, and was often social commentary on WASP culture via the 'black character' making fun of whites.>CircusMuch bigger then today, was basically family entertainment, but also included freak shows, and acrobatics.>Theator ShowsSolid middle class entertainment, basically what movies are today, ran the gambit from high brow to retarded romantic commedies and b-movie so-bad-its-good type shit.>OperaThis is what rich and upper middle class people went to see. It's self explanitory.
The earliest minstrel shows had some basis in black folk music, dance and comedy—“plantation melodies” interpreted on the northern stage by working class white men in burnt cork. It’s closer to hillbilly music than more modern Al Jolson type stuff, centered on the banjo, fiddle and rural themes, and a lot of the old time/bluegrass repertoire has minstrel roots. There were black minstrels as well, who exaggerated their features and mannerisms. Like much of American popular culture it’s a misegenated fakelore LARP but it’s catchy and fun.
>>18506353Great breakdown of 19th century popular entertainment, anon. Things got interesting when class lines were crossed, with aristos slumming or the lower classes trying to appreciate higher culture. Shakespeare was popular with everyone, though the working class was drawn to the sword fights and florid monologues. The bloody Astor Place Opera House riot saw an Irish mob trash the place in protest against an English actor in a production of Macbeth.
>>18506341I look like this and say this.
Cause whites think blacks are le funny. EVEN TODAY. Whites condecendingly look at blacks the way someone looks at a retard kid, they humor its nonsense out of pity, they laugh at its retarded antics (but if you're too mean about it they get pissed), and they always thank God/Science they weren't born one....Meanwhile chinese simply hate nigs and there is no endearment about it.
>>18506341>And this is how Japanes saw whites.And they're not wrong about how whites look for real.
>>18506341Frankly, that’s not inaccurate.
I will ask you, why is Dave Chappelle so damn funny anyways?His show was a cultural watershed.Tell literally anyone, "cocaine is a hell of a drug" and they will know instantly what you mean by it.Basically it's like that, but more white.
>>18506329Why weren't these collectible cards in rdr2?
>>18506329People love to watch jigaboo.
>>18506329because yankees are pathological urbanites. they want* to feel superior to other people, whereas southern ruralites felt the chivalric obligation to shepherd those who are weaker than themselves. but unironically.
>>18506341kek
>>18506329because mfer rights are racits
>>18506341Why did they make white people look like sasquatch hairy ass ape barbarians?
>"coon dandy" which is a black trying to act like a white guy.So whites make fun of blacks that act white, and blacks hate "uncle toms" who act white?
>>18506329Individuals at that time were absolutely starved for african music even if that music had to be gotten from individuals from the chesapeake unfortunately
https://youtu.be/QkjOxT-q5BI?si=eEaEDgRVQHVuTqo0This 1929 film shows how music from the northern minstrel stage fed back into southern folklore. Uncle John Scruggs on banjo and his family with a song written by a white man in 1871.
>>18506329It was that or read books which few could afford before Carnegie libraries
>>18506329Streamers like Speed and Kai Cenat are jus the mdoern day versions of minstrel shows
