Flat clappers made of bone or wood originally used by the end man in a minstrel show.
France and Australia may not have the United States' particular history of minstrel shows... but something about the act of portraying a white woman as black ought to sound an alarm, somewhere.
A case might be made for the blackface minstrel show vaudeville or for the entertainments of some medicine shows camivals and riverboats as american folk drama.
An actor wearing such makeup in a minstrel show.
The end man in a minstrel show.
Vaudeville or musical entertainment presented between the ACTS of a burlesque or minstrel show.
The first of all the negro minstrel shows came to town, and made a sensation.
One of Foster's songs written for minstrel shows is Camptown Races.
