Blacking
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Blacking may refer to:
- Blacking (polish), a nineteenth-century shoe polish
- Blacking up, putting on a style of theatrical makeup to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism
- John BlackingJohn BlackingJohn Anthony Randoll Blacking was a British ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist.John Blacking was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of the illustrious anthropologist, Meyer Fortes.After serving with the British Army in Malaysia,...
(1928-1990), British ethnomusicologist and anthropologist