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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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notated music
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sheet music
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Keywords
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1863-1877
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1901-1910
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1911-1920
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3
1863-1877
10
1901-1910
2
1911-1920
9
19th century
2
20th century
2
African American actors
1
African American baseball players
116
African American children
2
African American clergy
1
African American college graduates
95
African American composers
9
African American cookery
82
African American dance
2
African American families
46
African American men
34
African American musicians
1
African American physicians
16
African American poets
5
African American sailors
10
African American singers
24
African American soldiers
268
African American women
1079
African Americans
27
African Americans in literature
1
African Americans in popular culture
2
Alcohol use
1
Alcoholic beverages
11
American poetry
2
Angels
4
Ballads, American
5
Ballads, English
31
Banjo music
1
Baseball
1
Bee culture
2
Bells
1
Bicycles
1
Bigamy
1
Black English
2
Black nationalism
13
Blues (Music)
1
Boating accidents
8
Boatmen
1
Camp meetings
1
Caricatures and cartoons
1
Charleston (Dance)
3
Children
1
Chinese Americans
5
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
1
City and town life
26
Civil War, 1861-1865
7
Clothing
1
Conduct of life
1
Contraband of war
5
Cotton picking
1
Craniology
7
Creoles
2
Crimes against
1
Crows
14
Dance
10
Death
41
Death songs
15
Domestic relations
3
Dramatic production
1
Drinking songs
16
Economic conditions
15
Emancipation
9
Emancipation proclamation
11
Employment
15
Enslaved persons
1
Entertainment
9
Excerpts
1
Excerpts, Arranged
1
Falke, Charles
3
Foxtrots
3
Freedman
30
Freedmen
11
Fugitive slaves
4
Future life
19
Gamblers
36
Gospel music
1
Hasie, George E.
2
Hawaiians
16
Heaven
35
History
2
Horse racing
1
Hunting songs, American
1
Indian women
4
Jazz
1
Jazz vocals
2
Jealousy
1
Jockeys
6
Kings and rulers
4
Knife fighting
1
Labor unions
1
Love
96
Love songs
21
Lullabies
44
Lullabies, American
1
Marches
25
Marches (Voice with piano)
3
Marches for voice and piano
1
Marching bands
70
Marriage
3
Mexican War, 1846-1848
4
Millionaires
21
Minstrel shows
1
Minstrels
11
Money
1
Mothers
46
Music
12
Musical settings
1
Musical, Popular (Songs, etc.)
93
Musicals
22
Old age
11
Oyster fisheries
3
Part songs, English
6
Participation, African American
1
Patriotic music
1
Phrenology
1
Piano music
1
Piano music (Blues)
93
Plantation life
3
Political ballads and songs
5
Polkas
1072
Popular music
1
Porters
1
Portraits
1
Potpourris
1
Potpourris (Voice with piano)
1
Pullman porters
1
Quadrilles
15
Race identity
27
Race relations
40
Ragtime music
2
Rain and rainfall
2
Reconstruction
8
Recreation
9
Relations with Africans
46
Religion
2
Revivals
1
Roads
1
Saxophone music (Jazz)
12
Sea songs
1
Sin
88
Slavery
15
Sleep
50
Social life and customs
9
Songs (High voice) with piano
5
Songs (Low voice) with piano
3
Songs (Medium voice) with piano
1409
Songs and music
11
Songs with guitar
1
Songs with music
26
Songs with piano
1
Songs with ukulele
1
Songs, English
1
South African War, 1899-1902
25
Spirituals (Songs)
2
Steamboats
1
Students' songs
1
Study and teaching
4
Suffrage
1
Sugar workers
4
Telephone
3
Thieves
9
To 1901
1
To 1901.
1
Tobacco habit
1
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
1
Vocal duets with piano
1
Vocal quartets with piano
1
Vocal quartets, Unaccompanied
2
Vocal scores with piano
1
Voodooism
2
Voyages and travels
2
Waiters
5
Waltzes
1
Widowers
4
Women
1
Working class
3
World War, 1914-1918
12
Zulu (African people)
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The "Nicodemus" two step
Description:
composed by M.B. Lawry
For voice and piano
Cover title
At head of title: The latest Ethiopian oddity!
Cover illustration: drawing of Afro-American man and …
Year:
1896
Contributor:
Lawry, M. B. (composer)
Fisher, E. S. (illustrator)
Vivian Music Publishing Co. (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
African American men > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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"Oh, I don't know," or, I thought I was a winner::
comic song and refrain with coon parody
Description:
by Bert A. Williams
For voice and piano
Cover title
"A coon parody on I thought I was a winner"--p. [2]
Advertisement for other songs: …
Year:
1896
Contributor:
Williams, Bert, 1874-1922 (composer)
S. Brainard's Sons Co. (Chicago, Ill.) (publisher)
Subject:
Williams, Bert > 1874-1922
African American women > Songs and music
Love songs
Popular music > United States
African American composers
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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The "St. Louis blues"
Description:
W.C. Handy
For voice and piano
Caption title
"The first successful 'blues' published"--Cover
"As played by Handy's orchestra"
Advertisements for another song: p. [6]
Melody …
Year:
1918
Contributor:
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (composer)
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (performer)
Pace & Handy Music Co. (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Blues (Music)
African American composers
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Songs and music
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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'Mandy::
plantation song a la silhouette
Description:
words & music by May Irwin
For voice and piano
Cover title
At head of title: Companion to "Mamie, come kiss your honey boy". Introduced …
Year:
1894
Contributor:
Irwin, May, 1862-1938 (composer)
Irwin, May, 1862-1938 (performer)
Irwin, May, 1862-1938 (associated name)
White-Smith Music Pub. Co. (publisher)
Subject:
Irwin, May > 1862-1938
African Americans > Songs and music
Musicals
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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(I'm waiting for you) Liza Jane
Description:
by Creamer & Layton
For voice and piano
Caption title
Title variant: Liza Jane
Professional copy
Year:
1918
Contributor:
Creamer, Henry, 1879-1930 (composer)
Layton, Turner (lyricist)
Broadway Music Corp. (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
African American women
Marriage > Songs and music
African American composers
African American poets
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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Description:
[words by William Cullen Bryant]; [music] by George R. Poulton
For voice and piano, with chorus (TASB)
At head of title: To President Abraham
From …
Year:
1862
Contributor:
Poulton, George R. (creator)
Morris, Robert,, 1810-1892 (lyricist)
Joseph P. Shaw (Music publisher) (publisher)
Subject:
Morris, Robert > 1810-1892 > Musical settings
Songs with piano
American poetry > 19th century > Musical settings
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Songs and music
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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The 9th battalion on parade
Description:
words by Ernest Hogan; music by Burt Williams
March for voice and piano
Cover title
Sung by: the Moore & Burgess Minstrels
Cover illustration: lithographed …
Year:
1896
Contributor:
Williams, Burt (creator)
Hogan, Ernest, 1865-1909 (lyricist)
Moore & Burgess Minstrels (performer)
Charles Sheard & Co. (London, England) (publisher)
Subject:
African American musicians > Songs and music
Marching bands > Songs and music
Marches (Voice with piano)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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The admired song of Lucy Neal
Description:
arranged for the piano forte.
For voice and piano.
Caption title.
Attributed to James Sanford in: Variety music cavalcade / Julius Mattfeld.
"1844-1857, Ditson, Oliver, …
Year:
1844
Contributor:
Sanford, James, 1814-1855 (composer)
Oliver Ditson (Firm) (publisher)
Subject:
African American women > Songs and music
Slavery > United States > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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Adolphus Morninglory
Description:
words by J.B. Murphy; music by D. Braham
For voice and piano
Caption title
Sung by: Harry Bloodgood, the popular song and dance man
Cover …
Year:
1868
Contributor:
Braham, David, 1838-1905 (composer)
Murphy, J. B. (lyricist)
Bloodgood, Harry, 1845-1886 (performer)
Oliver Ditson Company (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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Ain't you coming out to-night
Description:
words by Ren Shields; music by Henriette Blanke-Belcher
For voice and piano
Caption title
Cover illustration: border design with iris / Starmer
Advertisement for "The …
Year:
1909
Contributor:
Blanke-Belcher, Henriette (composer)
Shields, Ren, 1868-1913 (lyricist)
Starmer (illustrator)
Jerome H. Remick & Co. (Detroit, Mich.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
African Americans > Social life and customs
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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