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/
Relations
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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 …