[Dixielandjazz] Re: Minstrel Shows

[Mike Durham]

And let's not forget Carlton Coon, he of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. Guess 
he'd have to change his name today. BTW, my Dad worked for a firm called 
Cox, Long & Company. The receptionist used to joke 'Thank heavens Mr Long 
isn't the senior partner, or I'd never be able to answer the telephone!' 
(this is a true, if unmusical, story).

Mike D.

>From: "jazzfact" <jazzfact at ozemail.com.au>
>To: <TBW504 at aol.com>,<jbeebe at centurytel.net>
>CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Minstrel Shows
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 06:28:00 +1000
>
>Hi All,
>I work with a friend known as Ray "Darkie" Pettigrove, The great Australian
>clarinet player John Mc Carthy is also known as "Darkie", though his
>trademark black hair and beard has long turned silver. We still have Coon
>cheese. In Brisbane we have a football stadium stand named "The Nigger 
>Brown
>Pavilion" and yet Australia is typical of a modern well meaning and
>politically correct society. Both "Nigger Boy" liquorice and the famous
>shirt ads depicting an Aboriginal in a crisp white shirt and nothing else,
>"Mine Tinket They Fit" have disappeared.
>
>PS
>The name Coon came from Edward William Coon who patented a process for the
>accelerated ripening of natural, unprocessed cheese in 1926.
>
>regards,
>Richard Stevens
>www.thejazzfactory.net
>
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>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Minstrel Shows
>
>Dan, I don't beleive that 'Nigger' was necessarily a deragatory term years
>ago.  It was in early usage simply a word to denote people of dark skin.
>The same goes for 'darkie.'
>
>Jim Beebe
>
>Yeah, just like the term for an adult black male down South - "Boy". Are 
>you
>
>kidding? Suggestion: try a spellchecker too!
>Brian Wood
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