'Minstrel in the Gallery,' Jethro Tull's eighth LP, is being remastered and expanded for its 40th birthday. The band's fifth consecutive U.S. Top 10 album -- and the last to feature the longtime ...

The new book “Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop,” by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen, explores the history of minstrelsy, dissecting how it became the most popular form of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In spring 1975, had you been in the vicinity of Radio Monte Carlo’s premises in Monaco, you might have seen Ian Anderson dismount ...

Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

One year after The Minstrel Show, what’s next for the Hall of Justus? For our Oct. 5, 2005 issue, Grayson Currin joined Little Brother and their Hall of Justus entourage–L.E.G.A.C.Y., The Away Team, ...

Let’s begin with a little history lesson. In the long, long ago of 1992, Square Enix released the fantastic Romancing SaGa on the Super Famicon in Japan. The fourth SaGa game, it revolutionized the ...

If U Black Niggas Network, the satirical television station at the center of the 2005 Atlantic Records debut by Durham’s Little Brother, had been a real cable network, the tone of the broadcast would ...