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Minstrels

LC control no.sh 85085878
LC classificationGT3650 Manners and customs
ML2870 Musical history (Modern)
ML182 ML183 Musical history (Medieval)
Topical headingMinstrels
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Variant(s)Jongleurs
See alsoManners and customs
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Musicians
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Poets
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Bards and bardism
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Scope noteHere are entered works about professional entertainers from the 12th to 17th centuries, primarily professional secular musicians.
Subject example tracingHere are entered works about professional entertainers from the 12th to 17th centuries, more specifically professional secular musicians from that period. Works about members of primarily 19th- and early 20th-century entertainment groups in which comedians, almost always in blackface makeup, portrayed racial stereotypes of Black people are entered under Blackface entertainers.
Note under Blackface entertainers.
Found inGrove music online, December 16, 2021: Minstrel (A professional entertainer of any kind from the 12th century to the 17th, juggler, acrobat, story-teller etc.; more specifically, a professional secular musician, usually an instrumentalist; also called jongleurs, though that may have referred to a more general musical entertainer)
Britannica online, viewed June 30, 2023: minstrel (between 12th-17th centuries; professional entertainer of any kind, including jugglers, acrobats, storytellers, secular musician, usually with instrument; minstrel replaced term of jongleur around the 14th century; profession not limited to this time period, but under different names)