Write a brief essay on the types of entertainment and performers that would have been associated with the “classic” minstrel shows by the 1840s.

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variety show songs (solo and “full chorus”), dances, jokes, conundrums, satirical speeches, and skitsperformers only four at firstseated in a rough semicircle on the stagebanjo and fiddle players in the middle fiddle played the tunebanjo played an ornamented version of the tunefoot-tappingrhythm section: two “end-men” tambourine and bonesindulged in outrageous horseplaybones a pair in each hand, rattled together