Title

'You got to play rag-time', 1899. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'You got to play rag-time', 1899. '"Hoot Mon"; Sung with Enormous Success by the Clever Comedienne Maude Raymond of Rogers Bros' "A Reign of Error" Co. Direction of Klaw & Erlanger; A Darktown Society Event; Told in Verse by Jean C. Havez; Set to Music by A. B. Sloane'. From a collection of sheet music, some examples of which depict African Americans in a derogatory way. Other examples are songs by white musicians purporting to be black.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A06_497

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

61,2Mb (2,6Mb) / 13,3in x 17,9in / 3989 x 5359 (300dpi)

Keywords

female Caucasian women woman people black male library job man men music arts country entertainment singing musician white guy occupation clothes color design Scotland dress bagpipes kilt location SCOTTISH century musical instrument musical instruments profession vocalist singer clothing print score concept language offensive controversy African American African-American APPAREL B&W sheet music afro-american public library song controversial racism Bagpiper United States of America Colour vaudeville 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W white and black 1890s New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL racist Scots American America USA photograph portrait united states Unknown Sloane Maud Jean Raymond Maude M Ragtime S rag time rag-time M Witmark & Sons Witmark M. Witmark & Sons Marcus Witmark & Sons Marcus Heritage Art Tiffany bagpipe player scores 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing implied racism racial stereotype derogatory Notated music coon song Maud Raymond Maude Raymond Maud Tiffany Jean Havez Havez Jean C. Havez Jean C. Jean Constant Havez Jean Constant A. Baldwin Sloane A. Baldwin Alfred Baldwin Sloane