Fred Waring Blackface Minstrel TV Show 1950-2
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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The Fred Waring Show ran on CBS Television from June 20, 1948, to May 30, 1954. This was a time when a minstrel show theme, complete with blackface and coon stereotypes would be just another episode in a weekly variety show. But in Part One of this video you can see Fred Waring trying very hard to justify it.
Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: www.black-face.com
This clip is posted as Fair use for Educational purposes!
Damn, dude killed that "I'll Be There"
Literally the only good part
That "Oh Susanna" part was really well done.
The art is certainly there, but it is ruined by the blackface
"The dignity, good humor, and wonderful songs!"
Rap music is poetry; minstrelsy is prototypical rap music, therefore minstrelsy is poetic.
Certain things offend me, but I just ignore them, because everybody has a right to life. Imagine that - people can ignore what they dislike and GASP! the world doesn't end.
Clown acts don't offer my taste in music, and the circus tradition, wherefrom minstrelsy also sprung, is also dead thanks to politically correct overreaction and jackasses who don't know how to properly treat animals.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Internet comments aren't going to sway me. I was born with a disability, growing up while the Internet en masse was still novel. I don't mean to offend, but I don't care now, nor shall I ever care, what people think, or think they think, about myself and my lifestyle.
Minstrelsy is musical, comical, and authentically American as an art form. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but like modern, abstract, or avant garde art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History deserves to be remembered, or you'll be blind to the present and entirely lost in the future.
Good luck with your life, modern society. I'll go on living mine just the same.
@@PotterPossum1989 The art of caricature is the art of exaggerating defining characteristics until they are funny. There is a point at which it is a gentle form of fun, but this goes beyond that, to the point of insult. The implication through much of the humor here is that Black people are less intelligent than white people, and that their characteristic dialect and style of movement is indicative of that.
After watching this, I now know that if I ever want to piss of an angry Black person, i can ridicule them by repeating what they say in this dialect with these movement techniques and facial expressions. Because these performances were developed by people who thought it was fun to not take Black people seriously.
In other words, this isn't really a "nice thing."
And while one could ignore people doing this, then when they teach this to their children and their children, no one will explain to them what it feels like to watch it from the point of view of the people being lampooned. Lack of that kind of sympathy is what leads to misunderstanding, even to the point of hate and violence.
Now, I may not be able to change your mind, but since you have copy-pasted the same comment more than once, I figure maybe my reply will help someone else look at this from a different point of view, and maybe start to understand what all the fuss is about.
Thanks for the upload, don't often properly hear Kentucky Babe.
I see what you guy's are saying but let's say in 1950 if we pulled off an show, opposite of an black-face you guy's wouldn't like it its funny but really stereotypical, but if we pulled something off like this we would have got targeted or punished.
Rap music is poetry; minstrelsy is prototypical rap music, therefore minstrelsy is poetic.
Certain things offend me, but I just ignore them, because everybody has a right to life. Imagine that - people can ignore what they dislike and GASP! the world doesn't end.
Clown acts don't offer my taste in music, and the circus tradition, wherefrom minstrelsy also sprung, is also dead thanks to politically correct overreaction and jackasses who don't know how to properly treat animals.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Internet comments aren't going to sway me. I was born with a disability, growing up while the Internet en masse was still novel. I don't mean to offend, but I don't care now, nor shall I ever care, what people think, or think they think, about myself and my lifestyle.
Minstrelsy is musical, comical, and authentically American as an art form. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but like modern, abstract, or avant garde art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History deserves to be remembered, or you'll be blind to the present and entirely lost in the future.
Good luck with your life, modern society. I'll go on living mine just the same.
Thank you for posting this. You can see how minstrel shows were so popular: the familiar format and characters, the mixture of good music, sentiment and cornball humour. All good family entertainment. It's a pity that the racial aspect has seen this incredibly influential and popular genre condemned and locked away despite the evident good humour and lack of malice with which, at least in its latter days, it was performed.
I could see this going from city to city.
On person;s "lack of malice" is another person's ignorance and/or insensitivity.
I mean, seriously, this is cringeworthy stuff.
$259 for a 1950 GE TV model 16T5 would be valued in 2023 dollars at $3,285.23, so that was a pretty hefty price for 1950.
@ikachina , thanks for this upload. I love historical media of all types.
OBVIOUSLY 👁️
Minstrels shows are so fun and the music is rich but simple, a true expression of American folk culture.
You are brainwashed.
We're all brainwashed, just a matter of looking past it.
Rap music is poetry; minstrelsy is prototypical rap music, therefore minstrelsy is poetic.
Certain things offend me, but I just ignore them, because everybody has a right to life. Imagine that - people can ignore what they dislike and GASP! the world doesn't end.
Clown acts don't offer my taste in music, and the circus tradition, wherefrom minstrelsy also sprung, is also dead thanks to politically correct overreaction and jackasses who don't know how to properly treat animals.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Internet comments aren't going to sway me. I was born with a disability, growing up while the Internet en masse was still novel. I don't mean to offend, but I don't care now, nor shall I ever care, what people think, or think they think, about myself and my lifestyle.
Minstrelsy is musical, comical, and authentically American as an art form. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but like modern, abstract, or avant garde art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History deserves to be remembered, or you'll be blind to the present and entirely lost in the future.
Good luck with your life, modern society. I'll go on living mine just the same.
@@PotterPossum1989 The art of caricature is the art of exaggerating defining characteristics until they are funny. There is a point at which it is a gentle form of fun, but this goes beyond that, to the point of insult. The implication through much of the humor here is that Black people are less intelligent than white people, and that their characteristic dialect and style of movement is indicative of that.
After watching this, I now know that if I ever want to piss of an angry Black person, i can ridicule them by repeating what they say in this dialect with these movement techniques and facial expressions. Because these performances were developed by people who thought it was fun to not take Black people seriously.
In other words, this isn't really a "nice thing."
And while one could ignore people doing this, then when they teach this to their children and their children, no one will explain to them what it feels like to watch it from the point of view of the people being lampooned. Lack of that kind of sympathy is what leads to misunderstanding, even to the point of hate and violence.
Now, I may not be able to change your mind, but since you have copy-pasted the same comment more than once, I figure maybe my reply will help someone else look at this from a different point of view, and maybe start to understand what all the fuss is about.
If it weren't for our stupid society saying everything is racist and white men bad then we would still have these shows
I personally love these and think they're funny, and though i'm not african american I am a person of color and I love these shows. so take that sensitive snowflakes.
"...our stupid society saying everything is racist and white men bad..." You're exaggerating. Our society isn't saying any such thing. What is being said is that there is still too much racism in America. Many are open and proud about it. Others don't realize that many of their negative attitudes towards PoC are based on racial stereotypes that have a very long history. Then there is the institutional racism that is everywhere -- i.e. whites get arrested, while unarmed blacks are being gunned-down all the time, and it is rarely ever punished.
Good for you :-) minstrelsy was nothing more than prototypical rap or hip-hop. See "Lost sounds, blacks and the birth of the recording industry" by Tim Brooks. There's also a 2 CD set via Archeophone Records.
Sadly, the further we get into the millennial generation, the more ignorant and stupider Society seems to become. We are turning into races of eloi waiting to be eaten by the morlocks.
@@ikachina I just want to say I feel bad for you. It’s got to be infuriating uploading videos like this and for the majority of the viewers to be defending it. Especially with crap like, “People say EVERYTHING is racist”, while defending black face.
@@ikachina K
@@davidpaul6290
God forbid people enjoy a video.
Rap music is poetry; minstrelsy is prototypical rap music, therefore minstrelsy is poetic.
Certain things offend me, but I just ignore them, because everybody has a right to life. Imagine that - people can ignore what they dislike and GASP! the world doesn't end.
Clown acts don't offer my taste in music, and the circus tradition, wherefrom minstrelsy also sprung, is also dead thanks to politically correct overreaction and jackasses who don't know how to properly treat animals.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Internet comments aren't going to sway me. I was born with a disability, growing up while the Internet en masse was still novel. I don't mean to offend, but I don't care now, nor shall I ever care, what people think, or think they think, about myself and my lifestyle.
Minstrelsy is musical, comical, and authentically American as an art form. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but like modern, abstract, or avant garde art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History deserves to be remembered, or you'll be blind to the present and entirely lost in the future.
Good luck with your life, modern society. I'll go on living mine just the same.
He doesn't need to try very hard to justify celebrating history and the American theater as it once was - minstrelsy is the most quintessentially American art form, take it or leave it, as it is simply nothing more than prototypical rap or hip-hop. Things are only as offensive as sensitive people let them be.
You mean he doesn’t have to try hard to be a white racist. Definitely. It’s clear as day.
These people you call “sensitive” are educated on African American history in American . It’s more than just a perspective. It’s REAL.
It's a real perspective, and just as valid as mine is. You don't know me, I'm not going to cry about you ignorantly judging me; I really don't care either way. We're never going to meet in person, so I don't care. Were we to meet in person, I still wouldn't care.
Lastly, as a note, the lyrics don't include any truly derogatory terminologies. This is especially evident within the last half of the show, and the final song, which did contain such epithets in its earlier formulation. Fred Waring was being sensitive. This was merely political correctness in transition. Thank God it exists in its entirety. It is truly historically authentic insofar as its era.
Still here
@@alexisstar5324
You don't know me, I don't know you, so I don't care, miss.
Wunderbar!
Kinder egg?
Howdy, Brer Rabbit!
Still here
He's back again.
Once more with feeling
Good stuff!
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Kind of hard to insult random strangers online when A you can't bother to proofread your insult, and B since I don't know you and I'll never meet you, I don't really care what you think of me. You know nothing about me. Goodbye.
The comments, 😂😂😂the comments, most entertaining thing here, ducking dodging condoning and justifying. It’s gone, good. I’m glad some of y’all get reminise about the bad ole Jim Crow daze! Take it away Mr Bones! 🎉🎉😂😂
Still listening
Atrocious! This is a true minstrel show, though. Including the hosts sitting in the thrones watching the show on the stage.
These are the horrible stereotypes which the country saw when these shows toured.
Insensitive, bigoted minds came up with this format which was based on idiotic depictions of black folks.
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funny stuff. I wouldn't want to use my own face either. Regardless it's american amusement
Epic find
Artistic and authentic . All wokeness to the side.
I really don't mean to offend anybody, but I watch this damn thing at least once a day. It is quite comical once you can appreciate it within context. go ahead and dress in white face, I would love to see it. I miss seeing good clown acts.
why are you trying to defend this; at the end of the day blackface is racist idc how “comical” it is.
That really goes for any comedian on stage, doesn't it? No matter how comical you are, you can still be offensive.
Goodbye.
@@PotterPossum1989 yeah but this isn’t your average offensive comedy that you can just brush off, this is something that isn’t funny at all and should be taken seriously. blackface is NOT funny. it’s really offensive to black people, and as a black person myself; i am offended. so if you aren’t black you really shouldn’t be invalidating any black person’s feelings in the comments by saying that this is comical.
@@PotterPossum1989 plus in your original comment you said you wouldn’t care if someone dressed up in whiteface, well “whiteface” really doesn’t have any negative history behind it, because white people in america haven’t really had a history of being oppressed like black people with blackface. i’m just saying don’t get so mad 🤷🏾♀️.
Oh well, if they could do it in white chicks, they can do it now.
Horrifying on several levels, not the least of which is the precipitous fall of one of the great novelty bandleaders of the 1920s... Poly McClintock still hangs in there, but Waring's late career focus on male chorus performances screams mid-life crisis! Very representative of the often racist TV shows of my extreme youth... Still, thanks for posting this artifact!!!
James Madison Mosley excuse me?
I'll bet you're fun at parties. The more people like you complain about stuff like this, the more apt people like me are to seek it out.
@@PotterPossum1989 Yeah, he probably is fun at parties, since he’s, you know, normal. You, on the other hand, seem to get very triggered by other’s opinions, and spend your free time seeking out garbage in spite. I’m very sure you're not fun at parties.
This guy is a great singer
Fascinating parodies of blacks a deluxe mask would be better they look like Halloween masks they look like real minorities black Asian etc
Martin Lawrence did white face the best..Bob the white guy in the Research department
This TV show is boring I think the cartoon versions of black Americans was funnier than this. Fascinating to see scatman crothers and other blacks in this time {period} I did not know it was so blatant
No, what’s boring is most of the garbage on TV and on the radio nowadays.
Wtf 😂😂🤣🤣
@ikachina , thanks for this upload. I love historical media of all types.