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Ernest Hogan (born Ernest Reuben Crowders, 1865 - 1909) was the first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show (The Oyster Man in 1907) and helped create the musical genre of ragtime. 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ...
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A native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, as a teenager Hogan worked in traveling minstrel shows as a dancer, musician, and comedian. In 1895 Hogan published several popular songs in a new musical genre, which he named ragtime.[1] These hit songs included "La Pas Ma La" and "All Coons Look Alike to Me". The success of this last song created many derogatory imitations, known as "coon songs" because of their use of racist and stereotypical images of blacks. Neighboring fast food restaurants in Bowling Green, of which the city has many. ...
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While Hogan was considered one of the most talented performers and comedians of his day,[2] his contribution to the racist "coon song" craze haunted him. Before his death, he stated that he "regretted" using the racial slur in his song. Terms of disparagement are pejorative terms such as yid, kike, nigger, whore, slut, fag and queer whose use usually arouses painful feelings in the target, members of the targeted group or sympathizers. ...
Early years
Born Ernest Reuben Crowders in the Shake Rag District of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1865. As a teenager, he traveled with a minstrel troupe called the Georgia Graduate, where he performed as a dancer, musician, and comedian. During this time he changed his name to Hogan because "Irish performers were in vogue."[2] Hogan likely performed in blackface during this time, as he sometimes did later in his career.[2] This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co. ...
Creation of ragtime genre It was also during this time that Hogan created a comedy dance called the "pasmala", which consisted of a walk forward with three steps back. In 1895, he wrote and published a song based on this dance called "La Pas Ma La".[2] The song's chorus was: - Hand upon yo' head, let your mind roll back,
- Back, back back and look at the stars
- Stand up rightly, dance it brightly
- That's the Pas Ma La.
Sheet music to "All Coons Look Alike to Me." Hogan followed this song with the massive hit "All Coons Look Alike to Me". Hogan was evidently not the originator of the song's lyrics, having appropriated them after hearing a pianist in a Chicago salon playing a song titled "All Pimps Look Alike to Me".[3] Hogan merely changed the words slightly, substituting the word "coon" for "pimp"[4] and added a cakewalk syncopation to the music, which he had heard being played in back rooms and cafes.[5] The song eventually sold over a million copies.[3] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 464 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (557 × 720 pixel, file size: 102 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ernest Hogan Coon song User:Calliopejen1...
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While the song's overall message isn't racist, the use of the racial slur "coon" infuriated many African Americans. Some Black singers made a point of removing the word "coon" from the song whenever they sang it.[4] In addition, the success of this song created many imitations, which became known as "coon songs" because of their use of extremely racist and stereotypical images of blacks. In Hogan's later years he evidently felt shame and a sense of "race betrayal" for the song.[3] This box: Racism has many definitions, the most common and widely accepted is that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ...
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Sheet music to Coon Coon Coon, which bills itself as The Most Successful Song Hit of 1901. ...
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The controversy over the song has, to some degree, caused Hogan to be overlooked as one of the originators of ragtime, which has been called the first truly American musical genre. Hogan's songs were among the first published ragtime songs and the first to use the term "rag" in their sheet music copy. While Hogan made no claims to having exclusively created ragtime, fellow Black musician Tom Fletcher said Hogan was the "first to put on paper the kind of rhythm that was being played by non-reading musicians."[3] Look up ragtime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
As Hogan said shortly before he died,
| “ | (That) song caused a lot of trouble in and out of show business, but it was also good for show business because at the time money was short in all walks of life. With the publication of that song, a new musical rhythm was given to the people. Its popularity grew and it sold like wildfire... That one song opened the way for a lot of colored and white songwriters. Finding the rhythm so great, they stuck to it ... and now you get hit songs without the word 'coon.' Ragtime was the rhythm played in backrooms and cafes and such places. The ragtime players were the boys who played just by ear their own creations of music which would have been lost to the world if I had not put it on paper."[5] | ” |
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Sheet music to Coon Coon Coon, which bills itself as The Most Successful Song Hit of 1901. ...
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Notes - ^ Ernest Hogan Ragtime Originator biography website, researched by Ray Buckberry, accessed January 11, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Tap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing by Mark Knowles, McFarland & Company, 2002, ISBN 0786412674, pages 119-20.
- ^ a b c d Ragging It: Getting Ragtime into History (and Some History into Ragtime) by Loring White, iUniverse, 2005. xiv, 419 pp. ISBN 0-595-34042-3, pages 99-100
- ^ a b Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History by Edward A. Berlin, 2002, ISBN 0595261582, page 35.
- ^ a b Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots by Maurice Peress, Oxford University Press, 2003, page 39.
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