Genuine Negro Jig

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

 

[Crypt Kicker]

No thanks, I'll keep my peanut jig, you should get one too.

 

[Dr. Jaime Reyes]

That guy's great. I bought a pair of these, but damned if my clumsy Caucasian hands can make 'em clack like brother Dom.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

That guy's great. I bought a pair of these, but damned if my clumsy Caucasian hands can make 'em clack like brother Dom.

I bought a pair, realized immediately that (like harmonicas and other stupid shit I bought) it's actually quite difficult, and then never touched it again.

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

This is the only negro jig us good folk down south like:

Wine and Roses (performed by John Fahey)

 

[GunCar Gary]

roots music and ugly niggers, two of my least favorite things individually, are so much worse combined than i ever imagined

 

[Idiotron]

 

[Small Hat Linux]

Oh the Carolina Chocolate Drops are fantastic

 

[TokiBun]

Since this thread is active are there any recordings out there of "coon songs"? Basically they were popular ragtime songs of their time. Ragtime that's popular now was not what was the big hit then. Coon songs were ragtime music with sung lyrics and I've always wanted to hear one after writing a paper on Scott Joplin and the rag revival of the 1970's.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Since this thread is active are there any recordings out there of "coon songs"? Basically they were popular ragtime songs of their time. Ragtime that's popular now was not what was the big hit then. Coon songs were ragtime music with sung lyrics and I've always wanted to hear one after writing a paper on Scott Joplin and the rag revival of the 1970's.

I don’t have coon songs like that but I have a couple Union minstrel songs (people forget both that minstrelsy was a Yankee genre primarily aimed at Yankees, and that there is a huge side of abolitionist/Unionist minstrelsy to go with it).

Half of any Confederate music album is going to be minstrel songs.

I’ve never listened to post-War minstrelsy.

 

[Breadbassket]

I’ve never listened to post-War minstrelsy.

Minstrel shows as a form of theater kind of entered into a decline starting in the early 20th century when vaudeville started becoming more popular. At the very least, due to the invention of film and the proliferation of movies and such there are a few performances that were documented.

Here is the The Edison Minstrels, an early sound "film" from 1913.

Here is the "Minstrel Days" from 1941, a Vitaphone musical featurette featuring a minstrel show, with traditional interlocutor and Mr. Bones, doing many old time songs (mostly Stephen Foster) with Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface

Finally there is "Yes Sir, Mr. Bones" which is a 1951 movie which is kind of a last hurrah for minstrelsy as at this point it wasn't really popular anymore (neither was vaudeville either to be fair) but it was still in living memory.

 

[TokiBun]

I don’t have coon songs like that but I have a couple Union minstrel songs (people forget both that minstrelsy was a Yankee genre primarily aimed at Yankees, and that there is a huge side of abolitionist/Unionist minstrelsy to go with it).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wsJj5cETV9E
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KJqo1Ix1LQ
Half of any Confederate music album is going to be minstrel songs.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tSQurtzodlo
I’ve never listened to post-War minstrelsy.

Thanks so much I'll check them out soon! I think it's important to American music history, ethnomusicology for this music to be preserved. Not doing that would be fake and gay so I'm glad we have recordings.