Description
- Notes:
- words by Bob Cole; music by Rosamond Johnson
- For voice and piano
- Caption title
- "By Cole and Johnson Bros."--T.p.
- "Introduced and sung with tremendous effect by Carroll Johnson in Dockstader's great minstrels"--T.p.
- Pages [2] and [7] are blank
- Title page design by J. Frew; photo. by Byron, N.Y. of stage performance of Dockstader's great minstrels, with Carroll Johnson and other performers in blackface and river steamboat
- Advertisement for 11 other Johnson, Cole and Johnson songs (with incipits) on p. [6]; advertisement for Marie Cahill's Congo love song (with 1st p. of music; pl. no. 3510) on p. [8]
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond),
"Moonlight on the Mississippi"
(1903).
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:24757/
Relations
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Moonlight on the Mississippi
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Moonlight on the Mississippi
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Moonlight on the Mississippi
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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 …