What form of early American "entertainment" included comic scenes, dance interludes, and sentimental ballads, all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South?

A) Singing musicals
B) Minstrel shows
C) Dixie plays
D) Civil War melodies

B

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A. call-and-response singing B. dominance of rhythm C. use of short vocal phrases against a continuous rhythmic background D. basic guitar chords performed in a simple style

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