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"I Long for My Home in Kentuck": Christy's Minstrels in Mid-19th-Century Britain
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2013 (T218)
- pp. 38-65
- Article
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Christy's Minstrels set a new standard for minstrel performance in mid-Victorian Britain. Yet reception was far from monolithic: the cultural affiliations of audiences led to important regional differences in reception, including room for racialist perspectives complicated by religion, nationalism, class, and antislavery convictions.