"They Cloned Tyrone" on Netflix is sooooo much better than it needed to be. Juel Taylor used #blaxploitation tropes perfectly and hilariously and depressingly to launch an immanent critique of #BigTech and #SurveillanceCapitalism and #MassMedia #minstrelsy from an African American epistemology. So many bits and pieces of urban folklore and deep cultural references and so much heart and mind.

Watching David Harewood's documentary on #Minstrelsy & #Blackface contained the (oddly) shocking seldom seen footage of Judy Garland, Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire in blackface.... now edited out when the respective films are shown....

fascinating stuff....

Sen. Tim #Scott is a #GOP affirmative action #minstrelsy!

Who do they think they are?

#SenateGOP #affirmativeaction

May 13, 1911: The company of Dumont's Minstrels pose on the steps of the 11th Street Opera House in Philadelphia.

A onetime church, the building had been a highly popular minstrel theatre for many decades, but now it was being demolished to make room for a Horn & Hardart's automat.

Our episode about the long history of minstrelsy in Philadelphia theater can be found here:
https://www.aithpodcast.com/the-last-minstrel-show/

#theater #theaterhistory #theatrehistory #history #phillyhistory #minstrelsy

Âşıklık (#minstrelsy) tradition of Turkey is performed by wandering poet-singers known as âşıks.
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/klk-minstrelsy-tradition-00179

Fellow academics:

Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).

I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.

#introduction time.
I'm a writer living in Dundee, making ends meet copywriting for luxury brands in Paris. Editing a can of worms that intertwines music, race, African American history, white supremacy, Confederate memory, you name it. Originally from Sydney, Australia, came to Scotland via years in Kent, Hampshire, and Paris.
Love equality, fed up with the Tories. Let's follow each other.

#history #biography #music #race #CivilWar #JimCrow #ConfederateMonuments #minstrelsy #slavery

Kinda #introduction till I get around to doing the warm fuzzy prose version.
#history #biography #music #race #CivilWar #SouthernStudies #JimCrow #ConfederateMonuments #reconstruction #minstrelsy #marktwain #slavery #emancipation #banjo