User:Mhotep/sandbox/List of coon songs

This is a list of Coon songs or are otherwise closely associated with that genre. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known.

A

• "All Coons Look Alike to Me"

B

• "The belle of Darktown: plantation song"
• "The best I get, is "there he goes": a coon wail"

C

• "Come back, my honey I'se been waiting"
• "The Coons Are on Parade"
• "The coon's breach of promise"
• "Coon Coon Coon"
• "Coon Gi'nt (Coon jive)"
• "Coon Salvation Army"
• "Coon Schottische"
• "Coon smiles"
• "Coon delights"
• "The Coleville coon cadets"
• "Creme of coon society"
• "The coon town chappie"
• "The coon that I suspected"

D

• "The Dandy Coon's Parade"
• "The dandy coloured coon"
• "Darktown is out to-night"
• "Dar's a new coon wedding"
• "Dat chicken-liftin' coon from Tennessee"
• "De coon dinner"
• "De coons am on parade"
• "The darkies rally"
• "De ole plantation coon"
• "Doing de old coon jar"
• "De coon dat had de razor"
• "Drowsy Dempsey: a coon shuffle"

E

• "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon"

F

• "Four little curly headed coons"

G

• "Gentlemen coons parade"

H

• "Hottest coon in Dixie"

I

• "I Am Thinking of my Pickaninny Days"
• "I wonder what is that coon's game"
• "If the Man in the Moon Were a Coon"
• "I want a real coon"
• "It's Up to You to Move (Coon Song)"

K

• "Kitta Katta Kyno, or, New zip coon"

L

• "Little Alabama coon"
• "Little cotton dolly"
• "The luckiest coon in town"

M

• "Ma dandy soldier coon"
• "Ma ebony belle: coon song & refrain"
• "Ma genuine African blonde"
• "Mammy's little pumpkin colored coons"
• "Mary's gone with a coon"
• "Miss Amorinta Jackson's promenade : coon song & chorus"
• "My little chocolate cream"

N

• "New Coon in Town"
• "Night was made for coons"
• "No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me"

O

• "Oh! Mr. Coon"
• "Oh That Beautiful Rag"

P

• "The phrenologist coon"
• "Parthenia took a fancy to a coon"

R

• "Raffling for the coon"
• "A royal coon"

S

• "Syncopated Sandy"
• "Somebody's done me wrong"

T

• "That nasty little copper colored coon"
• "The Coon from the moon"
• "The Coon that lived next door"
• "There's a strange coon in heaven"

W

• "Way down Coon Hollow"
• "Whar's dat coon now?"
• "When This Country's President Will Be A Coon"

Z

• Zip Coon

References

• Abbott, Lynn, & Doug Seroff. Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, Coon Songs, and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2007). ISBN 1-57806-901-7.
• Blesh, Rudi and Harris, Janet; They All Played Ragtime; Alfred P. Knopf; New York: 1950.
• Dormon, James M. Shaping the Popular Image of Post-Reconstruction American Blacks: The 'Coon Song' Phenomenon of the Gilded Age. American Quarterly 40: 450-471 (1988).
• Hamm, Charles. Genre, Performance and Ideology in the Early Songs of Irving Berlin. Popular Music 13: 143-150 (1994).

Hubbard-Brown, Janet; Scott Joplin: Composer; Chelsea House; New York: 2006. ISBN 0-791-092-119

• Mencken, H.L. "Designations for Colored Folk" in Knickerbocker, William Skinkle,Twentieth Century English, Ayer Publishing (1970).
• Lemons, J. Stanley. "Black Stereotypes as Reflected in Popular Culture, 1880-1920." American Quarterly 29: 102-116 (1977).
• Peress, Maurice. Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots Oxford University Press (2003).
• Reublin, Richard, ed. (April 2001). "Songs of the Moon". Parlor Songs. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
• Reublin, Richard A. and Robert L. Maine. "Question of the Month: What Were Coon Songs?" Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia website, Ferris State University (May 2005).
• Sotiroupoulos, Karen. Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the century America, Harvard University Press (2006).

See also

• Hokum
• Coon song
• Minstrel show

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