(n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) KA Lee’s Bamboozled and Genet’s The Blacks are critiques of black and white minstrel shows; they do not simply recreate them.
(3) She doesn't say it, but I take this to be a reference to Henry's notorious appearance on the touring Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s.
(4) Black artists have a dubious track record of appearing in and supporting racist art in the past, for example the black and white minstrel shows.
(5) I'm a bit of a wandering minstrel: my day often begins with breakfast meetings, before I head to my desk.
(6) As offensive as The Black and White Minstrel Show, as embarrassing as The Benny Hill Show, and just as certain to be consigned to the past.
(7) Consequently, to some commentators, Dolezal is a self-tanning, hair-frizzing fraud, knowingly masquerading as black, a hideous contemporary version of blackface minstrel.
(8) Ten years ago the National Trust bought the redbrick house studded with romantic details including turrets, stained glass, window seats, a miniature minstrels' gallery and a well, and opened it to the public for the first time.
(9) As the ratings and the money roll in, Delacroix is haunted by a machine from the minstrel era, a late-19th-century "Jolly Nigger Bank", in the shape of a grinning black boy, whose metal arm swings backward to deposit a coin in his mouth.
(10) Maybe it’s time to let go of it, look forward and see what we can find.” Goat have also found themselves having to bat away accusations that wearing increasingly extravagant tribal regalia is, at best, cultural appropriation and, at worst, a kind of cosmic minstrelism.
(11) French Vogue failed to respond to our queries, and meanwhile, in other blacking up news, Dizzee Rascal has what looks like a load of black-and-white minstrels on the set of his new video, Dirtee Cash.
(12) Spike Lee’s Bamboozled does so to great effect, Jean Genet’s The Blacks is a minstrel show written by a white playwright that is highly provocative and charged with racial tension to expose the hypocrisy and deeply embedded racism found at all levels of society.
(13) The audience may be more haunted by the minstrel show's central stage prop, a huge portal in the form of a thick-lipped, bug-eyed bellboy; performers in black-face enter from backstage through the gaping mouth.
(14) The household calamities continued in her expenses from 1 April 2007 to 30 June 2007 as Moran claimed £2,282.65 for repairs and decoration after a "front room roof collapse", with other expenses for the same period including a silk cushion for £5, £150 on a Milano silver mirror, £270 on even more bedding and a packet of chocolate Minstrels for £1.75.
(15) "He is from that school of medieval minstrels who played with paradox and the absurd," adds Fo.
(16) Some players have told me that a failure to act would only endorse what they have always felt: that black people have no place in this game other than as minstrels performing on a stage.
(17) In Spike Lee's new media satire Bamboozled, Damon Wayans plays Pierre Delacroix, a television producer who creates a minstrel show that exploits racial stereotypes that were shamed off the stage decades before.
(18) The day in 1936, perhaps, when the 17-year-old Seeger heard Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the "Minstrel of the Appalachians" , play the banjo at a festival of folk music in North Carolina and took up the instrument with such aptitude and devotion that his own subsequent book, How to Play the 5-String Banjo , became and remains a standard text for students of the instrument.
(19) The minstrel boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him.
(20) Young's father was a multi-instrumentalist and teacher who schooled his children in music, forming them up alongside their stepmother as the New Orleans Strutters, and playing carnivals, circuses and minstrel shows.
Oriel
Definition:
(n.) A gallery for minstrels.
(n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.
(n.) A bay window. See Bay window.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters demand the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue from the front of Oriel College, Oxford.
(2) Casting a wide net, the diplomats targeted banks that advise the companies as well as City firms that provide stockbroking services or write research notes about the five, a list that includes Panmure Gordon and Oriel Securities.
(3) Oriel Securities analyst Jonathan Pritchard described Tesco's results as "distinctly non-vintage" but welcomed Clarke's frankness: "The rhetoric surrounding the UK is the polar opposite of the former regime's."
(4) Once again, we see the Tory government stating high aims on equality while at the same time implementing policies which only serve to embed and entrench inequality.” Dalia Gebrial, a member of Rhodes Must Fall Oxford – the student group that has been campaigning for the removal of the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes from Oxford’s Oriel college, said the fact that the prime minister had recognised the disparity in higher education should be welcomed.
(5) In short, there was a choice to make, and Oxford and Oriel made theirs.
(6) There are many more urgent targets than Rhodes’s Oriel statue.
(7) Whatever I thought about the content, at least I left knowing what an oriel window and who Giotto was.
(8) "This provides further evidence that the winners this Christmas have been those brands with the ability to fulfil the UK's demand to treat itself on special occasions," said Oriel Securities analyst Jonathan Pritchard.
(9) Mike Trippitt, an analyst at Oriel, cut his rating to "reduce" from "buy".
(10) Hands has a doctorate from Oxford University and began by teaching 19th-century literature to undergraduates at Oriel College.
(11) They don’t think about it as something that manifests itself in everyday life at institutions like Oxford.” The campaign has gained over 2,500 followers on Facebook and students have protested outside Oriel College, where a statue of Cecil Rhodes stands.
(12) Oriel College, Oxford, has decided to keep its statue of Cecil Rhodes, despite the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, a protest that has been one of a kind on this side of the Atlantic.
(13) 01204 852 113 , thewellbeingfarm.co.uk Forge Fieldcraft, Pembrokeshire With an emphasis on living off the land, Mark Oriel runs a course in country living skills, including lessons in hunting and field butchery.
(14) Financial analysts at Oriel Securities The final outcome on Basel III determined by regulators over the weekend looks positive for UK banks.
(15) Oxford university donations that still court controversy | Letters Read more Today Oriel is under pressure from British-based supporters of the anti-Rhodes campaign in southern Africa.
(16) The first of these battles led swiftly to victory, with the removal of the large statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town a month after the campaign began; the latest, to frustration, given Oxford University’s resistance to doing the same with the statue of Rhodes at Oriel College, where it still stands, on the facade of a building bearing his name, as an acknowledgement of the £100,000 he left the college in his will.
(17) Why, for that matter, were we unaware of Rhodes above the gate to Oriel?
(18) Why did Powell seem so irrelevant when I saw him at Oriel more than a quarter-century ago?
(19) Neither I nor my wife, who was once a graduate student at Oriel, could recall the existence of a Rhodes statue at Oxford (though she vividly remembered a large portrait of Rhodes glowering down on students inside the college) – a reminder that imperial legacies are not necessarily less pernicious because they may be less obviously visible.
(20) Oriel College has said it will not remove the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University despite a campaign by students who believe the British imperialist’s legacy should not be celebrated.