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This failure to even see any racism was a measure of the BBC’s real problem: the archival record of its behind-the-scenes thinking during this period is far from flattering. Blacking up continued to be a common form of entertainment for television audiences and local communities throughout the 20th century.

Adam’s reply came back accusing Thorne of “arrant nonsense”: the show, Adam argued, belonged to that “perfectly honourable theatrical tradition of the British music hall”. VG/EX means that the item's sleeve is in Very Good condition and the disc is in Excellent condition. The BBC says that the Black and White Minstrels is "a traditional show enjoyed by millions for what it offers in good-hearted family entertainment".Popular empire films from Hollywood and Britain like The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) and The Drum (1938) regularly featured British army officers donning blackface to fool the locals and gather intelligence.

After the murder in Alabama in 1963 of 35-year-old white postal worker William Lewis Moore, who marched from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to protest against segregation in the American South, the satirical show That Was the Week That Was parodied The Black and White Minstrel Show 's trivialisation of the systemic racism in the Southern American states with a sketch in which Millicent Martin dressed as Uncle Sam and sang a parody of "I Wanna Go Back to Mississippi" ("Where the Mississippi mud / Kind of mingles with the blood / Of the niggers that are hanging from the branches of the trees"). However, the second part of the rationale put forward in 1967 – that blacking up was not about race – demands closer examination. The programme was launched as a regular Saturday-night programme in 1958 and by 1963 was attracting 16. The theatrical tradition of the show could then be measured against the histicial background and the continued fight against segregation going on in the United States, here, and elsewhere in the world. Within five years of the show's premiere on UK television, its portrayal of blacked-up characters behaving with stereotypical African American manners was already being observed by some as offensive and racist.The show’s longevity belied the complaints the BBC received in 1967 from black Britons who criticised the blacking up at the show’s centre. accompanied by minstrel singers in blackface ("Mississippi, it's the state you've gotta choose / Where we hate all the darkies and the Catholics and the Jews / Where we welcome any man / Who is strong and white and belongs to the Ku Klux Klan"). Many regard the show as Uncle Tom from start to finish, and as such in underlyingly offensive to many no matter what the outward gloss and size of the audience prove to the contrary.

It marked a turning point away from public discussions of blacking up, racism, and representation in Britain. From 1958 to 1978, British audiences became used to a familiar sight on their television screens: white singers and actors performing in blackface on the BBC’s variety programme, The Black and White Minstrel Show . This recording sounds as if someone had merely put an old well worn record on to disc, crackles included.This material was joined by new productions of blackface, including by comedians Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan in Till Death Us Do Part (BBC, 1966-68, 1972-75), the short-lived Curry and Chips (ITV, 1969), Laurence Olivier in Khartoum (1966) and Michael Bates in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (BBC, 1974-1981). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The story behind the controversy surrounding Broadstairs entertainment troupe Uncle Mack's Minstrels has been revealed in a local historian's new book". The Minstrels also had a theatrical show at the Victoria Palace Theatre, produced by Robert Luff, [4] which ran for 6,477 performances from 1962 to 1972, and established itself in The Guinness Book of Records as the stage show seen by the largest number of people. The presence of black performers on the Black and White Minstrel Show was less a measure of progress than a sign of just how restricted the opportunities were for regular employment.

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