Long tail blue

as sung at the theatres. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Long Tail Blue, ca. 1827 ... was the first song of the Negro dandy."--Series of old American songs / Brown Univ. Library, no. 14. Cover illustration: lithograph of Afro-American dandy in long-tail coat facing right. "Lith. of Endicott"--Cover.

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Original record: Long tail blue
Collection: Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Joseph F. Atwill (Music publisher) (publisher)
Subject(s): African Americans
Popular music
Songs and music
United States
Type: notated music

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