(the) Black and White Minstrels
- (the) Black and White Minstrels
the Black and White Minstrels [the Black and White Minstrels]
a British group of men and women who sang and danced on the stage and in a popular ↑
BBC television show
(1958–78
). The men often had black ↑
make-up on their faces. This type of entertainment had been popular in 19th–century America, and Al
Jolson had used similar ↑
make-up in his films in the 1930s, but by 1978 this had become unacceptable to audiences and the show never returned to television.
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