page_title: Coon song
hierarchical_section_title: Coon song
caption_attribution_description: Sheet music cover "Coon Coon Coon" from 1901; with insert photo of Minstrel performer Lew Docksteader in blackface. Alternative cover of same piece: Image:1900s SM Coon Coon Coon.jpg Coon coon coon / words by Gene Jefferson&#160;; music by Leo Friedman. Friedman, Leo, 1869-1927. Other Titles First line of text: Although it's not my color. First line of chorus: Coon! Coon! Coon! Notes For voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title: "The most successful song hit of 1901." "Introduced and sung by Lew Dockstader"--Cover. Cover illustration: drawing of the faces of three Black men, with the word "coon" incorporated into their features / Edgar Keller; photograph of Lew Dockstader. Alternate lines to second verse: p. 5. Advertisements for "The honeysuckle and the bee" and other songs: cop. 2, p. [2], [7-8] Cover photograph: Zoa Matthews, cop. 3; Annie Kenwick, cop. 4. Library's cop. 2 inscribed: E.A. Young. Originally published: Chicago&#160;: Sol Bloom, c1900. Subjects Dockstader, Lew,--1856-1924. Matthews, Zoa. Kenwick, Annie. Afro-Americans--Race identity--Songs and music. Popular music--United States. Related Names Jefferson, Gene. Performer: Dockstader, Lew, 1856-1924. Performer: Matthews, Zoa. Performer: Kenwick, Annie. Illustrator: Keller, Edgar, Sol Bloom (Music publisher) Part of Sheet Music Collection, The John Hay Library Repository Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912 Digital ID (Print copy 2) rpbaasm 0489 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0489 (Print copy 3) rpbaasm 0490 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0490 (Print copy 4) rpbaasm 0491 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0491
context_page_description: Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people. They were popular in the United States, Europe and Australia from around 1880 to 1920, though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848. The genre became extremely popular, with white men giving performances in blackface and making recordings. White women known as coon shouters also gained popularity.
context_section_description: Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people. They were popular in the United States, Europe and Australia from around 1880 to 1920, though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848. The genre became extremely popular, with white men giving performances in blackface and making recordings. White women known as coon shouters also gained popularity.
caption: 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
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