Minstrel Songs, the Whitewashing of Lyrics, and Erasure of History

Oh Susanna is a song I personally remember singing in my childhood, during daycare, summer camps, and elementary school. So, when I learned in class that Oh Susanna is a song written for minstrel s…

Dinah, Put Down Your Horn: Blackface Minstrel Songs Don't Belong in Music Class, by Dr. Katya Ermolaeva

Why Hamilton is Not the Revolution You Think it is

Black minstrel song sheets, 1850s

Full article: “This is America”: repurposing the white gaze through imitation

First things first, I'm the realest': Linguistic appropriation, white privilege, and the hip‐hop persona of Iggy Azalea - Eberhardt - 2015 - Journal of Sociolinguistics - Wiley Online Library

Why Hamilton is Not the Revolution You Think it is

Why is a racist minstrel tune still recognized in Virginia code as the 'state song emeritus?' - Virginia Mercury

Ask Mr. Mudd: “Levee Song” and Princeton's Minstrel Shows – University Archives

Black Scholars Confront White Supremacy in Classical Music

List of blackface minstrel songs - Wikipedia

First things first, I'm the realest': Linguistic appropriation, white privilege, and the hip‐hop persona of Iggy Azalea - Eberhardt - 2015 - Journal of Sociolinguistics - Wiley Online Library

Song of the South' Lyrics Removed From Disneyland Parade : r/Disneyland

Leslie Uggams, Sing Along with Mitch (1961–64), and the Reverberations of Minstrelsy, Journal of the Society for American Music

blackface Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music