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Gibb Sahib Minstrel songs and chanties (44) RE: Minstrel songs and chanties 22 Jan 21

Yes, "Stormy" appears to have been the case of minstrel songsters taking a cotton screwing song (i.e. a piece of African American "folk" repertoire) and putting it on the popular stage — part of the project of mining African American song material for their genre that was meant as (often) a representation of the same.

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