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Don't fool, dat black gal's mine!

Description:
  • words & music by Harry Macdonough
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 6-8]
  • Cover illustration: 2 Afro-American men threatening …
Year:
1897
Contributor:
MacDonough, Harry (composer)
Davies, Syd (illustrator)
T.B. Harms & Co. (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Jealousy > Songs and music
Knife fighting > 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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I don't allow no coon to hurt my feelin's

Description:
  • written & composed by Irving Jones
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Advertisements for other songs: p. 4-[6]
  • Library's copy imperfect: lacks p. 1-2
Year:
1898
Contributor:
Jones, Irving, ca. 1874-1932 (composer)
Jos. W. Stern & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Knife fighting > Songs and music
Jealousy > Songs and music
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 new bully:: as sung in the "Widow Jones"

Description:
  • comp[osed] by Lee Johnson; arr by Doc Albert
  • March for voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Pages 1-3 are unnumbered
  • Sung by: May Irwin
  • The number …
Year:
1896
Contributor:
Johnson, Lee (composer)
Albert, Doc (arranger)
Irwin, May, 1862-1938 (performer)
Zeno Mauvais Music Company (San Francisco, Calif.) (publisher)
Subject:
African American men > Songs and music
Knife fighting > 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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Razors in the air:: comic song & chorus

Description:
  • sung with great success by Barry Maxwell, with the Haverly Mastodon Minstrels
  • For voice and piano
  • Cover title
  • "Among the miscellaneous songs of 1880 ... …
Year:
1880
Contributor:
Murphy, Joseph E. (composer)
Maxwell, Barry, b. 1848 (performer)
Oliver Ditson & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Knife fighting > 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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