Consider "Yankee Doodle" and the "macaroni."  The English foil and his
servant Jessame in Royall Tyler's "The Contrast."  Much discussion has
emerged on minstrelsy, and in that regard "Long-Tail Blue" is important --
and the various evocations in literature, such as the cakewalk in
Chesnutt's "A Marrow of Tradition."  I often wonder in Huck Finn whether
Jim, when dressed up as a sick Arab who must act crazy, is an invocation
of Long-Tail Blue.  Others?

HIlton Obenzinger