Description
- Notes:
- words & music by Ben. Harney
- For voice and piano
- Cover title
- Advertisements for other songs, piano instruction book: p. [2], [6]
- Cover illustration: Black couple kissing, under insect with hat and cane
- Also published for band, orchestra, banjo, mandolin, and guitar
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Harney, Benjamin Robertson,
"The black man's kissing bug::
an interrupted osculation in Darktown
"
(1899).
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:19857/
Relations
Collection:
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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 …