[MUSIC] -- [DUNBAR, Paul Lawrence and Will Marion COOK]. Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd.New York and Chicago: M. Witmark & Sons, [ca 1898].
Sale 1005 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Mar 1, 2022
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Mar 8, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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[MUSIC] -- [DUNBAR, Paul Lawrence and Will Marion COOK]. Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd.New York and Chicago: M. Witmark & Sons, [ca 1898].
6pp., 11 x 14 in. sheet music. (Fully separated at centerfold, tearing and chipping at edges/corners, 5 in. tear on bottom edge of p. 3, many tears repaired with tape).
[With:] 20 x 20 in. embroidered pillow that takes as its source the sheet music illustration for the song, Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd, which was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Will Marion Cook and performed in their 1898 Broadway show, Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk. The hit show featured an all-African American cast and "Who Dat" was the most popular number. The pillow consists of a scene of three young African American boys confronting an oversized chicken under a treble clef and musical notes (toning, scattered spotting).
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