the recording from earlier is really fascinating too because of how it records largely white us vernacular with every so often a particular pronunciation clearly intended to appeal to the authenticity of black vernacular but they rarely even do that right
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Scenery grew lavish and expensive, and specialty acts such as strongmen, acrobats, or circus freaks sometimes appeared. These changes made minstrelsy unprofitable for smaller troupes. Minstrel troupes, which previously had tended to be owned by performers, now tended to be owned by professional managers such as Haverly.[57]
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A survey of nine surviving professional minstrel performers in 1947 found a variety of reasons given for the near-total collapse of professional minstrel shows; the rise of motion pictures and other forms of stage show, the inability to recruit performers for minstrel troupes' gruelling tours, and the difficulty of finding theater bookings at a cost cheap enough to make back. None thought changing societal attitudes to race relations played a role in its decline.
Racism made black minstrelsy a difficult profession.
Most black troupes did not last long.[76]
The addition of jubilee singing gave black minstrelsy a popularity boost as the black troupes were rightly believed to be the most authentic performers of such material.[77]
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