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72 relations: African-American music, African-American musical theater, American Quarterly, American studies, Arthur Pryor, Artie Hall, Bert Williams, Bessie Smith, Blackface, Blues, Bob Cole (composer), Bullying, Clarice Vance, Cohabitation, Dream sequence, Elsie Janis, Emma Carus, Ernest Hogan, Ethnomusicology, Eugene Stratton, Eva Tanguay, Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon, Fad, Fanny Brice, Fay Templeton, Ferris State University, Fred Fisher, G. H. Chirgwin, G. H. Elliott, Gambling, George Walker (vaudeville), Gus Edwards, H. L. Mencken, Howard W. Odum, Hustling, Irving Berlin, J. Fred Helf, John Philip Sousa, Julia Gerity, Lotta Crabtree, Mae West, Marie Dressler, Maurice Peress, May Irwin, Minstrel show, Music genre, Music industry, Nora Bayes, Pan-African flag, Passing (racial identity), ..., Popular music, Racial segregation in the United States, Ragtime, Sam Lucas, Schottische, Scott Joplin, Sherman H. Dudley, Sophie Tucker, Stereotypes of African Americans, Straight razor, Syncopation, Theft, Tin Pan Alley, Trixie Friganza, United Kingdom, United States, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Vaudeville, Watermelon stereotype, Whig Party (United States), Will A. Heelan. Expand index (22 more) »
African-American music
African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans.
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African-American musical theater
African-American musical theater relates to the historic musical theater of the African American community, particularly prominent in New York City during the first half of the 20th Century.
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American Quarterly
American Quarterly is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association.
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American studies
American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American history, society, and culture.
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Arthur Pryor
Arthur Willard Pryor (September 22, 1869 – June 18, 1942) was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band.
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Artie Hall
Artie Hall (c. 1881–1906) was an American vaudeville singer and actress, known for her blackface performances as a coon shouter.
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Bert Williams
Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922) was a Bahamian American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time.
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.
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Blackface
Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Bob Cole (composer)
Robert Allen "Bob" Cole (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911) was an African American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.
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Bullying
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.
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Clarice Vance
Clarice Vance née Clara Etta Black (March 14, 1870 – August 24, 1961), "The Southern Singer" was an American vaudeville personality from the late 19th century to about 1917.
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Cohabitation
Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together.
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Dream sequence
A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story.
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Elsie Janis
Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter.
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Emma Carus
Emma Carus (March 18, 1879 – November 18, 1927) was a contralto singer from New York City who was in the cast of the original Ziegfeld Follies in 1907.
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Ernest Hogan
Ernest Hogan (born Ernest Reuben Crowdus; 1865 – May 20, 1909) was the first African-American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show (The Oyster Man in 1907) and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.
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Eugene Stratton
Eugene Augustus Rühlmann (May 8, 1861 – September 15, 1918) was an American-born dancer and singer.
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Eva Tanguay
Eva Tanguay (August 1, 1878 – January 11, 1947) was a Canadian singer and entertainer who billed herself as "the girl who made vaudeville famous" and known as "The Queen of Vaudeville".
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Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon
"Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" was a song written by Will A. Heelan, and J. Fred Helf that was popular in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Fad
A fad, trend or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follows an impulse for a finite period.
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Fanny Brice
Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice, was an American illustrated song model, comedienne, singer, theater, and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.
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Fay Templeton
Fay Templeton (December 25, 1865 – October 3, 1939) was an American actress, singer, songwriter and comedian.
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Ferris State University
Ferris State University (FSU, Ferris) is an American public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan.
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Fred Fisher
Fred Fisher (born Alfred Breitenbach, September 3, 1875 – January 14, 1942) was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher.
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G. H. Chirgwin
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G. H. Elliott
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Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.
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George Walker (vaudeville)
George Walker (1872 or 1873 – 1911) was an American vaudevillian.
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Gus Edwards
Gus Edwards (18 August 1879 – 7 November 1945) was an American songwriter and vaudevillian.
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H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
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Howard W. Odum
Howard Washington Odum (May 24, 1884 – November 8, 1954) was an American sociologist and author, publishing three novels in addition to 20 scholarly texts.
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Hustling
Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin (Израиль Моисеевич Бейлин) Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.
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J. Fred Helf
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John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic marches.
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Julia Gerity
Julia Gerity (July 22, 1898 – ?) was a singer of popular music, most often identified with blues singing.
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Lotta Crabtree
Lotta Crabtree (November 7, 1847 – September 25, 1924) was an American actress, entertainer and comedian.
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Mae West
Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades, well-known for her lighthearted bawdy double entendres and breezy sexual independence.
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Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.
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Maurice Peress
Maurice Peress (March 18, 1930 – December 31, 2017) was an American orchestra conductor, educator and author.
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May Irwin
May Irwin (June 27, 1862 – October 22, 1938) was a Canadian actress, singer and star of vaudeville.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music industry
The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.
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Nora Bayes
Nora Bayes (born Rachel Eleanora Goldberg, October 3, 1880 – March 19, 1928) was an American singer, comedian, actress and vaudeville star of the early 20th century.
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Pan-African flag
The Pan-African flag—also known as the UNIA flag, Afro-American flag and Black Liberation Flag—is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black and green.
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Passing (racial identity)
Racial passing occurs when a person classified as a member of one racial group is also accepted as a member of a different racial group.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.
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Ragtime
Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.
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Sam Lucas
Sam Lucas (August 7, c. 1848 – January 5, 1916) was an African American actor, comedian, singer, and songwriter.
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Schottische
The schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia.
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin (1867/68 or November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist.
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Sherman H. Dudley
Sherman Houston Dudley (1872 – March 1, 1940) was an African-American vaudeville performer and theatre entrepreneur.
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Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tuck (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966), known professionally as Sophie Tucker, was a Ukrainian-born American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality.
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Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes and generalizations about African Americans and their culture have evolved within American society dating back to the colonial years of settlement, particularly after slavery became a racial institution that was heritable.
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Straight razor
A straight razor is a razor with a blade that can fold into its handle.
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Syncopation
In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.
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Theft
In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
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Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Trixie Friganza
Trixie Friganza (born Delia O’Callaghan; November 29, 1870 – February 27, 1955) began her career as an operetta soubrette, working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act on the vaudeville circuit.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, ULL, or UL) is a coeducational, public, research university in Lafayette, in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
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Watermelon stereotype
The watermelon stereotype is a stereotype of African Americans that states that African Americans have an unusually great appetite for watermelons.
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Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.
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Will A. Heelan
Will A. Heelan was an American lyricist during the early 20th century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_song
