Dar's No [Redacted] Warm Enough For Me

Composer

Dave Marion

Files

Alternate Title

Unredacted title: Dar's No Coon Warm Enough For Me

Preferred Citation

[Physical ID#]: [Title], Charles H. Templeton, Sr. sheet music collection. Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Cover Illustration

Man in suit holding cane and smoking cigarette

First Line of Song

Down at Johnson's Hall the Darktown Club once gave a ball,

First Line of Chorus

Then a little bowleg'd nigger, who they thought would cut no figure,

Lyricist

Marion, Dave

Lithographer/Printer

New York: Orphean Music Publishing Co.

Subjects

Minstrel Music

Publication Date

1897

Publisher

New York: Orphean Music Publishing Co.

Performance Medium

Piano; voice

Music Genre

Minstrel

Object Type

text

Format (Original)

1 score; (6 p.); 6 cm.

Format (Digital)

PDF

Notes

This song includes one or more elements of “blackface.” With theatrical roots in the West as far back as the 15th century, blackface entertainment “[displays] Blackness for the enjoyment and edification" of non-Black audiences, through racially insensitive means (Strausbaugh, Black Like You, 2006). Common features of blackface songs were racist titles and lyrics. Songs borrowed from and reorganized African American vernacular to depict racial difference through lyrics “authentic” to African American dialect (Mahar, “Black English in Earyl Blackface Minstrelsy,” 1985). These lyrics combined with titles that used common epithets like “coon” and “darky,” to correspond with wider social understandings of African Americans as “ignorant and indolent, but also devoid of honesty or personal honor, given to drunkenness and gambling, utterly without ambition, sensuous, libidinous, even lascivious” (Dormon, “Shaping the Popular Image of Post-Reconstruction American Blacks,” 1988).

Physical ID#

32278011764960

Digital ID#

011764960_1897

Location of Original

Box 143; Folder 1; Piece 15

Repository

Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights Management

Item Unavailable Due to Copyright Restrictions

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, e-mail sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.