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Les in Chorlton	Darkie Day - BBC Radio 4 on "The Untold" (89* d)	RE: Darkie Day - BBC Radio 4 on "The Untold"	23 Feb 16
Hey Matt Milton that's one of the sharpest questions anybody has asked on this topic. Thanks you: "nobody involved in the programme asked the obvious logical next question; why don't they therefore excise those minstrel elements? If they weren't part of the original tradition, it's surely no loss. " One of the features of amateur folklore is cherry picking of odd bits of 'history' then stitching the cherries together in an attempt to tell some king of non-historical story. The Britannia Coconut Dancers are a tremendous sight to see and an impressive survival of a dance but: what they put on their website Here Is a good example of the cherry picking practice although where the cherries come from is anybodies guess. Yes, I know their is no racist intent in any of this but can we just go for the honest recognition that 'Blackface' in 19C English Folk Arts is almost certainly associated with carnivals influenced by Blackface Minstrelsy from the US into UK Music Hall?

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