Coon song
Genre of music that presented a stereotype of African Americans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of Black people. They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880[1] to 1920,[2] though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848, when they were not yet identified with "coon" epithet.[3] The genre became extremely popular, with white and Black men[4] giving performances in blackface and making recordings. Women known as coon shouters also gained popularity in the genre.[5]
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