When our guest speaker came in and lectured about minstrelsy and showed those old cartoons i was very surprised. Namely because i remember watching those cartoons when i was younger and i never relized how racial they actually were. Probably because i was a youngster and didn't actually know anything about race/politics and all that stuff. Another thing i noticed about a certain cartoon (Tom and Jerry) is that they have a Mammy named simply Mammy Two Shoes. She was censored out of the late episodes of the show most likely due to the change of social climate in the states at that time.
Last night i was stumbling and i stumbled upon an add that seemed like it was in a news paper and it was an add for blackface makeup. it was strange that i just happened to stumble upon it and also because i happen to be learning about it now and to know what it actually entails. But other than that, the book is very interesting. For some reason i keep going back to the first couple of pages and rereading them because they hit home on popular music today and how its all the same. Which are my feelings exactly but also because they give you tons of definitions about music and some incites on music theory. Being a musician myself it does help
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