LC control no. | sh 85085878 |
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LC classification | GT3650 Manners and customs ML2870 Musical history (Modern) ML182 ML183 Musical history (Medieval) |
Topical heading | Minstrels |
Variant(s) | Jongleurs |
See also | Manners and customs Musicians Poets Bards and bardism |
Scope note | Here are entered works about professional entertainers from the 12th to 17th centuries, primarily professional secular musicians. |
Subject example tracing | Here 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 in | Grove 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) |