In ep 13, Jennie talks with Renee Lapp Norris about the history of America’s first popular culture form – blackface minstrelsy. Foster is sometimes credited with originating the genre, but Renee covers the history of minstrelsy before Foster began his career in the late 1840s.
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"The Pre-Foster History of Minstrelsy" with Renee Lapp Norris
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