| Coon song | |
|---|---|
 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 | |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | c. 1840s United States |
| Other topics | |
Coon 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[1] to 1920,[2] though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848, when they were not yet identified with "coon" epithet.[3] The genre became extremely popular, with White and Black men[4] giving performances in blackface and making recordings. Women known as coon shouters also gained popularity in the genre.[5]
- ^ Dormon 1988, p. 452.
- ^ Reublin, Parlor Songs, April 2001.
- ^ Hubbard-Brown, Janet; Scott Joplin: Composer; Chelsea House; New York: 2006. p. 22. ISBN 0-791-092-119
- ^ Chude-Sokei, Louis; 'The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora; Duke University Press Books; Durham, North Carolina: 2006. 288p. ISBN 082233643X
- ^ Stras, Laurie; White Face, Black Voice: Race, Gender, and Region in the Music of the Boswell Sisters, in Journal of the Society for American Music; Vol1:Issue 2; May 2007, pp 207-255. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.