Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date
by Edw. Le Roy Rice
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rice, Edw. Le Roy (Edward Le Roy), 1871-1938
- Original Publication
- United States: Kenny Publishing Company,1911.
- Credits
- deaurider, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- ML: Music: Literature of music
- Subject
- Actors -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69826
- Release Date
- January 18, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from “Daddy” Rice to Date
- 3.THE AUTHOR’S FOREWORD.
- 4.INTRODUCTION.
- 5.INDEX
- 6.INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7.MINSTREL ORGANIZATIONS, THEATRES AND PROGRAMS
- 8.SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR, WITH PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS.
- 9.THE FIRST BLACK-FACE PERFORMER.
- 10.SOME EARLY BLACK-FACE PERFORMERS.
- 11.“DADDY” RICE.
- 12.THE FIRST MINSTREL PERFORMANCE. — BILLY WHITLOCK — DICK PELHAM (Richard Ward Pell), — DAN. EMMETT (Daniel Decatur Emmett) — FRANK BROWER, — THE BUCKLEY SERENADERS. — CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS — JOE SWEENEY (Joel Walker Sweeney) — THE MORRIS BROTHERS. — GEO. THATCHER — ORIGINAL BIG FOUR—LESTER-ALLEN-SMITH-WALDRON. — McINTYRE and HEATH — THE FROHMANS IN MINSTRELSY. — LEW DOCKSTADER (Geo. Alfred Clapp). — THE ORIGIN OF “DIXIE.” — NEIL. O’BRIEN — FRANCIS WILSON AS A MINSTREL MAGNATE. — Transcriber’s Notes
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