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If the man in the moon were a coon

Description

Notes:
by Fred Fischer
For voice and piano
Cover title
At head of title on cover: "A combination of classical music & comical words"
At head of caption title: "Biggest ’hit’ in 20 years"
As sung by: Elizabeth Murray, Ferguson & Passmore, Emma Weston, and others
Variant advertisements
Cover illustration: drawing of elderly Black man entering chicken house, under a moon with a Black man's face; photograph of Elizabeth Murray
Also published for: violin, violoncello, trombone, cornet, and orchestra accompaniment
Library's cop. 1 has stamp on cover: H. Lockwood Abrams, Jr.
Cover photographs: cop. 2, the Nichols Sisters; cop. 3, Bonita; cop. 4, Emma Carus; cop. 5, George Austin Moore

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Fisher, Fred, "If the man in the moon were a coon" (1905). 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:19268/

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