Cylinder Record, Bakelite - A Coon Wedding In Southern Georgia - Peerless Quartette - 1908 - Indestructible 885

Object/Artifact

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Heritage Acres

Name/Title

Cylinder Record, Bakelite - A Coon Wedding In Southern Georgia - Peerless Quartette - 1908 - Indestructible 885

Entry/Object ID

1967.028.91

Description

A Coon Wedding In Southern Georgia - Peerless Quartette - 1908 - Indestructible 885

Use

Analogue Audio Recording

Context

Minstrel Song. Unfortunately one of many racist "comic songs" in the popular space of the 1910s. Performed by white men in blackface in a public mockery of "black culture" as seen by the white population.