Merry Makers
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The Merry Makers were a female African vaudeville group the 1930s whose repertoire consisted of a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music. It was one of many which had developed out of the minstrelsy tradition of the 1920s.
Sources
Loren Kruger, 1999:29; Ballantine 1993
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