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Jacob Eckhard's Choirmaster's Book of 1809

WILLIAMS, Bert, music by, and Grant Clarke, words byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Dat's Harmony Ziegfeld Follies of 1911

1911588772New York: Jerome H. Remick 1911. Softcover. Near Fine. Stated "Operatic Edition" possibly first thus. Folio. Originally a single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. The previous owner has very skillfully sewn the insert into the bifolium some light rubbing to the exterior else near fine. For voice and piano written in dialect. Plate imprint "Dat's Harmony 3." Composer and performer Bert Williams appears on the front cover both with blackface and without. Williams was a Bahaman-born American singer and performer and was one of the best selling Black recording artists prior to 1920. A Black performer wearing blackface was not an uncommon sight at the time in an article on the subject for JSTOR Daily Dorothy Berry cites historian James Dormon explaining that these performers "were 'Blacks playing whites playing Blacks' but that the performer’s racial identity convinced audiences and critics that they represented the reality of Blackness and that the reality was the 'cn'" a complication that illustrates the proverbial tightrope Black performers were forced to navigate when trying to sell entertainment to white audiences while also portraying their own unique experiences. The choice to present Williams on the cover twice is a troubling one even more so when one notices how fair Williams' complexion is made to appear in the portrait photograph and that his blackface character seems to be pointing at him both are upsetting examples of the colorism present in show business at the time. This is all punctuated with the equally troubling choice to include two smiling caricatures of Native Americans that in no way connects to the lyrics. We know of a variant cover in which the image of Williams in blackface is replaced with an illustration of a female jester who appears to be white holding a mirror in one hand and a marotte in the other though we have no knowledge of any precedence. A striking and seemingly uncommon piece. Jerome H. Remick unknown

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

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