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George Washington Dixon (1801? – March 2, 1861) was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor. He rose to prominence as a blackface performer (possibly the first American to do so) after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs. He later turned to a career in journalism, during which he earned the enmity of ...
This broadside was printed in 1836 by George Washington Dixon, one of the earliest American minstrel performers, as a public statement in his defense after being arrested for forgery. The broadside expresses facts and thoughts that had never before been published.
Two years after Rice’s performance, New York actor George Washington Dixon created the blackface character Zip Coon, the conniving, flashy, urban Dandy costumed in mismatching suits, who mocked the assimilation attempts of liberated and freeborn black men in urban centers such as New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New York City.
Zip Coon (George Washington Dixon). C. 1835. The only rival to the black impersonator, Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice ("Jim Crow"), was another white man, George Washington Dixon. Dixon began his stage career in Albany, New York in the circus.
Dixon, George Washington (1801?-61: ANBO) A pioneer of blackface minstrelsy, he came from obscure origins and died in a charity hospital. Following an apprenticeship in a circus, he found success as a singer of popular songs on the stage, touring as "the American boffo singer": his one freestanding literary publication is a collection of songs.
Feb 1, 2018 · [Verse 1] I went down to Sandy hook, toder arternoon; And de fust man I met dere was old Zip Coon. Old Zip Coon is a very larned scholar, He plays on the Banjo Cooney in de holler. [Verse 2] Did you ever see de wild goose said upon de ocean, O de wild goose motion is a very pretty notion, For when de wild goose winks he beckon to de swallor,
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George Washington Dixon (1801? – March 2, 1861) was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor . He rose to prominence as a blackface performer (possibly the first American to do so) after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs.
