Kinky

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G00C38_001

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Title

Kinky

Collection

Names

Pfeiffer, E. H. (Illustrator)
Green, J. Ed. (Lyricist)
Allen, Mord (Lyricist)
Cook, Will Marion (Composer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1908
Place: New York
Publisher: Gotham Attucks Music

Library Location

Music Division
Shelf locator: Music (Sheet) 00-310

Subjects

Songs

Genres

Scores

Notes

Content: "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
Content: Caption title.
Content: Cover photograph of William Jennings Bryan, lower right quadrant.
Content: First line of chorus: Kinky, Kinky, your skin is kind o' inky.
Content: First line of text: When just a pickininny, way down in old Virginny..
Content: For voice and piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Mord Allen & Ed. Green ; music by Will Marion Cook.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (4 p.) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Center seam torn and repaired with tape; edges worn.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG00-C38
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14693523
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 34462b10-c642-012f-3fd3-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Kinky" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1908. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/34462b10-c642-012f-3fd3-58d385a7bc34

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1908). Kinky Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/34462b10-c642-012f-3fd3-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Kinky" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/34462b10-c642-012f-3fd3-58d385a7bc34

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