Word: minstrelling
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...Them, flavors his blues-gospel-folk broth with a salty pinch of jazz. In the wings are two virescent newcomers. One is Carole King, a soul blues singer who plays piano on James' records and has written a song for his new album. The other is English Folk Minstrel Cat Stevens, who sounds like an off-the-moors Harry Belafonte...
...Florida," he said, "and you'd be out of a job. So you'd join up with the minstrel show going north. At least with the circus you'd have a berth-filthy as it was-on a train. With the minstrel show you had to travel in wagons-and they didn't have paved roads at that time." He laughed at the memory. "That was a lot of travelling in those days . . . just like the kids who travel around now. . . . You know, history comes back...
...their syllabic structure. Just imagine, listening to rock and understanding the words too. The musical depiction of Christ (Ian Gillan) is far too neutral to capture either a man or a myth. But Mary Magdalene (Yvonne Elliman) has been etched in melodically with Puccini-like tenderness, and the rollicking minstrel beat under the Apostles' chant, "What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening," is a Cakewalk of pure joy. The swinging gospel-rock music sung by Judas (Tenor Murray Head) brings him brilliantly to nagging, skeptical, near-paranoid life. Sound effects add to a building...
...through the air on a trunkless tree. In Our Hospitality, he went over a waterfall. When he employed sleight of lens, it was to achieve effects normally seen only on canvas. In The Frozen North, he climbed subway stairs-and emerged in Alaska. In The Playhouse, he staged a minstrel show with nine Busters. In the Pirandelloesque Daydreams, he left life to climb into a film within a film...
...roots of country music can be traced to the minstrel shows that toured the South in the late nineteenth century. Tony Russell in his book Black White, and Blues found most of the groups were make up of blackened-faced white singers who played "coon ballads," songs most musicographers have followed back to ante-bellum field ballads. The premier groups of the time, The Christry Minstrels and the North Carolina Ramblers, played for both black and white audiences. To set themselves apart from common medicine shows and folk singers, a Christy Minstrel's advertisement read: "Anything appertaining to vulgarity...