Coon song
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Coon songs or blackface songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people. They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880 to 1920, though the earliest such
Sheet music for "Coon, Coon, Coon", which bills itself as "The Most Successful Song Hit of 1901" with insert photo of minstrel show star Lew Dockstader in blackface
"The Niggardly Nigger", a British minstrel song from 1870.
Sheet music to "Every Race Has a Flag But the Coon"
Sheet music to Ernest Hogan's "All Coons Look Alike to Me"
Ma Rainey
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Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of souther
Coon song
…by black female singers like Josephine Baker and Ethel Waters, though Waters emphasized that her delivery was softer than 'shouters' like Smith and Ma Rainey. Black songwriters and performers who participated in the creation of coon songs profited commercially, enabling them to go on to develop a new type…
Rainey in 1917
Rainey and the band