Material Status-Nineteenth Century
Status
Possessions
Ambition
Opportunity
Color
Middle-class
masculine
Have
Want
Can get
White
Aristocrat,
scholar,
minister
Have
Do not want
Can get
White
Feminine
Have
Do not want
Cannot get
White
Lower-class
Do not have
Want
Can get
Off-white
Poor-whitetrash
Do not have
Do not want
Can get
Off-white
Slave
Do not have
Want/do not Cannot get
Black
Blackface minstrelsy
► European
immigrants
mocked AfricanAmerican class
pretensions by
imitating slaves on
stage
► These minstrel plays
allowed immigrant to
learn “white” behavior
by mocking and
rejecting the other
(“black”).
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OLE ZIP COON G.W. Dixon - ca. 1835 Fiddlin' Doc
Roberts
(3x) O ole Zip Coon he is a larned skoler,
Sings posum up a gum tree an conny in a holler.
(3x) Posum up a gum tree, coonny on a stump,
Den over dubble trubble, Zip coon will jump.
Chorus: O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden
day.
O Zip a duden duden duden duden duden day. O Zip
a duden duden duden zip a duden day. Zip a duden
duden duden zip a duden day.
O ist old Suky blue skin, she is in lub wid me
► I went the udder arter noon to take a dish ob tea;
► What do you tink now, Suky hab for supper,
► Why chicken foot an posum heel, widout any
butter.
► Chorus: Did you eber see the wild goose, sailing on
de ocean,
► O de wild goose motion is a berry pretty notion;
► Ebry time de wild goose, beckens to de swaller,
► You hear him google google google google gollar.
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Chorus: I went down to Sandy Hollar t other
arternoon
► And the first man I chanced to meet war ole Zip
Coon;
► Ole Zip Coon he is a natty scholar,
► For he plays upon de Banjo “Cooney in de hollar”.
► Chorus: My old Missus she’s mad wid me,
► Kase I would’nt go wid her into Tennessee
► Massa build him barn and put in de fodder
► Twas dis ting and dat ting one ting or odder.
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The Virginia Minstrels are generally credited with putting on the first
minstrel show, lining up four actor/musicians in a row, with "Bones"
at one end and "Tambo" at the other. They first appeared on stage
with this act in 1842.
This group was an early imitator; the sheet music is dated 1844. It
was common in pictures to show minstrels in both their "whiteface"
and "blackface" identities.
► http://www.besmark.com/minstrel.html
► http://songsforteaching.com/s/philrosenthal
/TurkeyInTheStraw.mp3
► http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/m
ediaplayer.asp?ean=084418222025&disc=1
&track=5
► http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxgFD
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