Description
- Notes:
- words by E.P. Moran & Paul Laurence Dunbar; music by John H. Cook
- For voice and piano
- Caption title
- Sung by Williams & Walker in Dunbar & Cook's operetta "In Dahomey"
- "Music supplement of the New York American and Journal, Sunday, October 26, 1902--pages 5-8"--Cover.
- Cover illustration: [photograph of Bert Williams]; drawing of African black holding spears / Th. S. Body
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Cook, John H.,
"Evah dahkey is a king"
(1902).
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s).
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:18827/
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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
...This collection is a grouping of over 1,400 items dating from the 1830s to the 1920s. The contents of the collection depict representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical …