Jim Crow
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X:1
T:Jim Crow
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 7)
N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff
N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson.
N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:G
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A|GB/G/ Ac/A/|B2G2 |c4|B/>c/d/B/ c/>d/e/c/|dfg||
X:2
T:Jim Crow. WHG.050
R:quadrille
S:W.H.Giles MS,Bampton,Oxfordshire,1839p53
O:England
H:donated by Mrs W.R.Kettlewell to VWML,Apr 1927.
A:Bampton, Oxfordshire
N:Jim Crow is written on p22, near the tune Jenny Jones. WHG.022.
Z:PJHeadford - VMP 2009
M:C
L:1/8
Q:2/4=70
K:G
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X:34
T:Jim Crow. Roose.0748
M:C
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
B:J.Roose MS, Manchester 1850
Z:Village Music Project, Steve Mansfield 2019
K:G
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X:1
T:Jim Crown
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Air
N:An odd version of the American blackface minstrel tune "Jim Crow"
S:Philip Carolan music manuscript collection
N:Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910, Crossmolina, County Mayo), a musically literate
N:farmer and fiddler who compiled his ms. probably during 1863-1873.
S:Angela Buckley, thesis, “A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of
S:Philip Carolan c. 1839-1910, vol. 2”, Waterford Institute of Technology,
S:2007, p. 43. Carolan ms. 1, No. 123.
K:C
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z|:D2D>E F2 (F>D)|E2D2F2D2|E>F G>E F>G A>F|1 G2B2c2z2:|2 G2B2c3||
X:3
T:Jim Crow
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:D
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