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Coon coon coon

Description

Notes:
words by Gene Jefferson; music by Leo Friedman
For voice and piano
Cover title
At head of title: "The most successful song hit of 1901"
"Introduced and sung by Lew Dockstader"--Cover
Cover illustration: drawing of the faces of three Black men, with the word "coon" incorporated into their features / Edgar Keller; photograph of Lew Dockstader
Alternate lines to second verse: p. 5
Advertisements for "The honeysuckle and the bee" and other songs: cop. 2, p. [2], [7-8]
Cover photograph: Zoa Matthews, cop. 3; Annie Kenwick, cop. 4
Library's cop. 2 inscribed: E.A. Young

Access Conditions

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

Citation

Friedman, Leo, "Coon coon coon" (1900). Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920). Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:19404/

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