Image Title

:  Kinky / words by Mord Allen & Ed. Green ; music by Will Marion Cook.

Creator

: Cook, Will Marion -- unknown role

Additional Name(s)

: Green, J. Ed. -- Lyricist
Pfeiffer, E. H. -- Illustrator
Allen, Mord -- Lyricist

Created Date

: 1908

Specific Material Type

: music

Item Physical Description

: 1 score (4 p.) : ill. ; 36 cm.

Notes

: "Introduced with great success by Aida Overton Walker. Cover illustrated by E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.: drawing of young African-American woman, probably Aida Overton Walker. Digitized by The New York Public Library. Library's copy has handwriting on cover. Covers separated; edges frayed and torn; cover corner missing. Music Note 2.) Caption title. Note 3.) Center seam torn and repaired with tape; edges worn. Note 4.) Cover photograph of William Jennings Bryan, lower right quadrant. Note 5.) First line of chorus: Kinky, Kinky, your skin is kind o' inky. Note 6.) First line of text: When just a pickininny, way down in old Virginny.. Note 7.) For voice and piano. Note 8.) National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project. Note 9.) Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Source

: Published music.

Location

: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Music Division

Catalog Call Number

: Music (Sheet) 00-310

Digital ID

: g00c38_001

Record ID

: 184875

Digital Item Published

: 12-2-2005; updated 3-25-2011