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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“Who is at my window, who, who?
It’s the blind cuckoo, mulling
the old song over.
The old song is about fear, about
tomorrow and next year.
Timor mortis conturbat me, he sings....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)