how offensive ragtimer vess l osman?

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this could be some of the most astonishing music i've ever heard.'a darkies awakening', 'a coon band contest'. 'all coons look alike to me' - which apparently had to be changed to that from the less-acceptible-in-1902 'all pimps look alike to me'.
this is all so utterly, utterly ridiculous, so wholly of a different world, it's hard to be offended by someting so completely absurd..
the most completely incredible thing is that this was popular music!

matthew james (matthew james), Sunday, 28 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)


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