Coon Song
Coon songs were a genre of music popular in the United States and around the English-speaking world from 1880 to 1920, that presented a racist and stereotyped image of blacks.
Read more about Coon Song: Rise and Fall From Popularity, Composers, Characteristics, Use in Theater, Effects On African-American Music, Coon Songs in Britain, Explaining Coon Songs' Popularity
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“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane of the grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)