Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for th

A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.

In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industri

Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for th

 The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's raci