zip coon

"Zip Coon" has a vocal range of an octave and a minor sixth.

Another song, "Zip Coon", was sung to the same tune.

In March, Dixon performed "Zip Coon" for the first time.

Speakers often took on the persona of popular minstrel show characters, such as the black dandy Zip Coon.

"Zip Coon" became his trademark song.

"Zip Coon"'s authorship is disputed with George Washington Dixon.

Chief among these were the slave, who often maintained the earlier name Jim Crow, and the dandy, known frequently as Zip Coon.

"Turkey in the Straw," also known as "Old Zip Coon," for example, is thought to be of Scottish origin.

The refrain is syncopated in a way that had only previously been used in the minstrel song "Old Zip Coon".

In the 1890s the Devil's Dream was popular, and bore a decided resemblance to the "Old Zip Coon".

Bob Farrell (minstrel singer), American minstrel singer, best known for "Zip Coon"

Popular culture played in to the ideas of "black criminality and moral decline" as can be seen in the characters Jim Crow and Zip Coon.

During the Mexican-American War, Dixon added some timely political references to "Zip Coon" and briefly returned to the public eye.

In the 19th century it was a minstrel mainstay known, depending on the lyrics, as "Zip Coon" or "Turkey in the Straw."

Choose lively old time reel music such as 'Durang's Hornpipe' or 'Old Zip Coon".

The earliest lyrics under the name "Zip Coon" were written by Dan Bryant (head of Bryant's Minstrels) and published in 1861.

Published in 1834, it was re-titled "Old Zip Coon," only to later morph into "Turkey in the Straw."

Experts on mid-19th-century minstrel shows might recognize the stock black archetype Zip Coon, a fastidiously turned-out freeman spoofed for "putting on airs."

"Well, when daybreak came, I shot a nice big fat Mr. Zip Coon out of an old pin-oak, and we started for home like old pardners.

His enemies sometimes called him a "mulatto", a "Negro", or referred to him as "Zip Coon", the name of the black character in one of his songs.

He rose to prominence as a blackface performer (possibly the first American to do so) after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs.

Its repetitive melodic idiom matches that of earlier minstrel standards, such as "Jump Jim Crow", "Coal Black Rose", and "Old Zip Coon".

Dandy characters often went by Zip Coon, after the song popularized by George Washington Dixon, although others had pretentious names like Count Julius Caesar Mars Napoleon Sinclair Brown.

Bob Farrell sings "Zip Coon", one of the most famous and enduring of minstrel songs, and claims to be its author; the tune also becomes a country fiddle standard as "Turkey in the Straw".

Although Dixon had previously sung "Long Tail Blue", another racist tale about a black "dandy" trying to fit into Northern white society, "Zip Coon" garnered acclaim and quickly became an audience favorite and Dixon's trademark tune.