Record ID
222565
Object title
Zip coon.
Published
Baltimore : G. Willig Junr., [ca. 1829-1867]
Notes
American minstrel song popularized by the white singer and blackface performer George Dixon. The song flourished as part of the standard repertoire for minstrel performers during the 1830s and is credited with originating the stock blackface character of "Zip Coon", a racist caricature aimed at denigrating the manners of free Blacks. Ohio songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett is sometimes erroneously credited as the song's author. Cf. Cockrell, D. Demons of disorder : early blackface minstrels and their world. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 92-139.
Same tune as Turkey in the straw.
Title, [1]; music, [2-3]; blank, [4].
Early edition of the song.
Caption title.
"A popular Negro song as sung by Mr. Dixon with great applause"--Cover.
Cover ill. signed "Litho. of Endicott 359, Broadway N.Y."
Same tune as Turkey in the straw.
Title, [1]; music, [2-3]; blank, [4].
Early edition of the song.
Caption title.
"A popular Negro song as sung by Mr. Dixon with great applause"--Cover.
Cover ill. signed "Litho. of Endicott 359, Broadway N.Y."
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