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"Negro Melodies"
Thus passed the “Blackbird Entertainment,” which, from its varied and concatenated series of fun-provocatives, the artistic skill displayed in its conception and exhibition, added to its serio-comico-dramatic character deserves to be ranked as the eighth wonder of Asylumia. For three consecutive nights the Blackbirds performed with unabated interest to a crowded hall...
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Title: "Negro Melodies"
Creator: n/a
Date: December 1854
Format: Article
Publication: The Opal
Source: New York State Library
Control no.: 051 O612 1854
Location: vol.4, no.12, pp.372-374
Keywords: African American; Asylums; Dance; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Health & Medicine; Humor; Identity; Insanity; Institutions; Leisure; Media; Music; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Popular Culture; Psychiatric Disability; The Arts; Theater
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Mass Media, Culture & The Arts