Ernest Hogan is often considered the true inventor of ragtime and he may have been. He wrote what are called “coon songs” which blackface white artists picked up on and it opened a new era of racism in American music. Hogan spent his later years apologizing for starting the coon song genre. Had he lived a little longer, he would have seen some of those stereotypes dying away.
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July 5, 2018
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