The New Minstrel Review - A new revival effort of the time honoured Americana.

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https://rdrama.net/post/397418/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-1 /
https://archive.org/details/@the_new_minstrel_review

I found this recently and was flabbergasted at what I was seeing. Americans all have the spectre of blackface minstrel shows hanging over them whenever race is talked about long enough and minstrel as an art form has long been disused. The New Minstrel Review aims to change this, it seems. It's now on it's 7th volume as of the 22nd of September 2025 and has been ongoing since April this year. The project is being solely published on Archive.org which actually isn't unusual as a small niche "scene" of zines being hosted an Archive.org instead of paying the costs of printing and publishing, ensuring ease of access and archival. The content and prose is kept within the same cultural milleu and themes of historical minstrel including originally acts, music and artwork. It's a sincere and bizarre loveletter to the art form.

https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-1/mode/2up

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https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-2/mode/2up

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https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-3/page/n5/mode/2up

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https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-4

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https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-5

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https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-6

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https://archive.org/details/the-new-minstrel-review-volume-7/page/n3/mode/2up

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I'm flabbergasted at what I'm seeing too.

Edit to talk about the actual post: This is the funniest shit I've seen all month. Thank you for showing us this, my friends and I are going to die laughing later. And as a historical effort, it's really quite authentic.
 
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I don't know exactly why, but this cracked me up the most. This is art on a level I don't quite have the vocabulary or precision to describe.
 
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