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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | In their time coon songs spoke volumes about white attitudes towards African Americans. Unfortunately in many cases they also spoke volumes about some black composers sense of personal pride and self image. They are an historical document that clearly shows white attitudes and the terribly oppressive social world that African Americans had to cope with. There seemed to be a piling on mentality that simply escalated what started as a cute novelty song into a national obsession that in the end is a complete and abject embarrassment. How we could ever let a musical fad reach the levels it did is hard to even begin to understand in today's society. Yet the trend today of some Rap "music" is in many respects even worse. Coon songs were written in ignorance much of today's Rap is written with malice forethought and pure hatred in mind. Because of the lyrics in Coon songs none of these songs are seen or performed today as they were originally written. It is even with some trepidation that we have dared to perform a few of them here at ParlorSongs. But we do believe it is a chapter in our musical history that should not and cannot be swept under the rug. It seems a shame to have an entire genre of song lost to today because of the words yet we could not tolerate a resurgence. Let us hope the same happens with today's "hate songs". The loss for us is certainly not in the lyrics but in losing the incredible musical richness of some of the songs that for a time were the most popular and hottest selling hits in American popular music. | | Headline | The first ragtime hit remains one of the most controversial songs of all time and made Ernest Hogan's musical contributions overlooked. | | Copyright Notice | parlorsongs.com/ coonsongs | | URL | http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/coonsongs/coonsongs.php |
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