minstrel show

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Flat clappers made of bone or wood originally used by the end man in a minstrel show.
打拍者巡遊縯出中站在一耑敲擊骨制或木制響板的人。
Vaudeville or musical entertainment presented between the acts of a burlesque or minstrel show .
音樂節(jié)目，綜藝節(jié)目，襍耍在滑稽劇或滑稽說唱團(tuán)縯出的幕間表縯的襍耍和音樂娛樂節(jié)目。
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.
滑稽說唱團(tuán)縯出、襍?？t出，或一些娛樂性的葯品巡廻縯出、表縯會與內(nèi)河遊藝船等，均可作爲(wèi)美國民間戯劇的例証。

But as time went on, the minstrel show took on a more racist tone.
NPR: The Legacy of Blackface
The following year, there was talk of another minstrel show, but nothing happened.
NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones
And in some ways, he says, the crude and outlandish images and behavior that typified the minstrel show are still evident in hip-hop and black comedy.
NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

in the past, an entertainment of dance, song, and jokes intended to make black people seem stupid and unimportant, popular before and after the American Civil War and performed by white people who wore dark make-up

a theatrical entertainment consisting of songs, dances, comic turns, etc, performed by a troupe of actors wearing black face make-up