Zip coon / composed and arranged for the piano forte.

American minstrel song popularized by the white singer and blackface performer George Dixon. The song flourished as part of the standard repertoire for minstrel performers during the 1830s and is credited with originating the stock blackface character of "Zip Coon", a racist caricature aimed at denigrating the manners of free Blacks. Ohio songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett is sometimes erroneously credited as the song's author. Cf. Cockrell, D. Demons of disorder : early blackface minstrels and their world. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 92-139.
Music, [1, 3]; blank, [2, 4].
Same tune as Turkey in the straw.
Early edition of the song; engraved.
Caption title.
"A famous comic song, as sung by all the celebrated comic singers, with wonderful applause"--p. [1].
Printed from the same plates as the edition with a full-page cover lithograph of Zip Coon by Endicott & Swett.