The following year, there was talk of another minstrel show, but nothing happened.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

And in some ways, he says, the crude and outlandish images and behavior that typified the minstrel show are still evident in hip-hop and black comedy.

NPR: The Legacy of Blackface

It lacked the white mockery of the minstrel show.

BBC: WC Handy's Memphis Blues: The Song of 1912

In his minstrel-show costume, he could be as reckless as he wanted.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

The most surprising musical movement that Hines foreshadowed, remarkably, was rap: In 1929, Hines himself performed a monologue in minstrel-show ebonics that could easily be done by Mos Def today.

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