"I long for my home in kentuck": Christy's minstrels in mid-19th-century Britain

Tracy C. Davis

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00260

"I long for my home in kentuck": Christy's minstrels in mid-19th-century Britain

Tracy C. Davis^*

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Abstract

Christy's Minstrels set a new standard for minstrel performance in mid-Victorian Britain. Yet reception was far from monolithic: the cultural affiliations of audiences led to important regional differences in reception, including room for racialist perspectives complicated by religion, nationalism, class, and antislavery convictions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	39-65
Number of pages	27
Journal	TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies
Volume	57
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00260
State	Published - Jun 2013

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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Literature and Literary Theory

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"I long for my home in kentuck": Christy's minstrels in mid-19th-century Britain

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