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National Jukebox: ethnic characterizations

Heard
1901–1923
Episodes
88
Language
English

This series carries the racist or ethnic caricature of its time, as recordings of its kind commonly did. It is offered to adult profiles only.

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Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Uncle Josh Weathersby in a Chinese laundry

  2. Backyard conversation between two Irish washerwomen

  3. The colored funeral

  4. Marty Maloney's wake

  5. Con Clancy's christening

  6. Scene at a dog fight

  7. Uncle Josh in a Chinese laundry

  8. Making the fiddle talk

  9. Marty Maloney's wake

  10. The patent medicine man

  11. Uncle Josh in a Chinese laundry

  12. Reuben Haskins' trip 'round the world

  13. Hans Krausmeyer and his dog Schneider

  14. The cat and the fly paper

  15. Louis and Lena

  16. Katrina's valentine

  17. Fritz and Louisa

  18. The original Cohens

  19. Scene in a country store

  20. Mandy and her man

  21. Hans and Gretchen

  22. Flannigan's night off

  23. Hans Krausmeyer and his dog Schneider

  24. Policeman Clancey and his Bedelia

  25. Coming home from Coney Isle

  26. Travel on

  27. Every little bit helps

  28. Rosie and Rudolph at the skating rink

  29. Jim Lawson's hoss trade

  30. Becky and Izzy

  31. The cat and the fly paper

  32. Si and Sis

  33. An evening at Mrs. Clancey's boarding house

  34. Fun at the music counter

  35. Katrina's valentine

  36. Finnegan's flat

  37. The widow Dooley

  38. Flanagan on a Broadway car

  39. O'Brien's automobile

  40. Uncle Josh and the sailor

  41. Christmas morning at Clancey's

  42. 'No news,' or 'What killed the dog?'

  43. Rabbit hash

  44. Arkansaw traveler

  45. Backyard conversation between two jealous Irish washerwomen, Back yard conversation

  46. Sweet Peggy Magee

  47. Hilda loses her job

  48. How Kathleen proposed

  49. When Malindy sings

  50. Turkey specialty

  51. McCarty's old trombone

  52. Working on the farm

  53. Darktown poets

  54. The darktown editors

  55. Gwine back to Arkansas

  56. Jimmy Trigger returns from the war

  57. Mr. Dooley's address to the Suffragists

  58. Two Negro stories

  59. Mrs. Rastus at the telephone

  60. Uncle Josh in a barber shop

  61. Jests from Georgia

  62. The boy in the bleachers

  63. War talk at Pun'kin Centre

  64. The insect powder agent

  65. Curiosity hunt

  66. Pineville school board

  67. Matrimonial difficulties

  68. The hospital patients

  69. Hungarian restaurant scene

  70. Cohan's wedding

  71. Ginsberg's stump speech

  72. Home Run Bill's defense

  73. Levinsky at the wedding

  74. Epaminondas

  75. A trip to paradise

  76. The death of Towser

  77. Levinsky at the wedding

  78. Cohen gets married

  79. Cohen on his honeymoon

  80. Nofrio corragiosu

  81. Nofrio avi li pira

  82. Southern court scene, first session

  83. Southern court scene, second session

  84. Darky stories

  85. Irish stories

  86. Southern court scene, third session

  87. Mammy Viny's Bible lesson

  88. Jezebel (Keep away from the dogs)

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. National Jukebox: ethnic characterizations

    Library of Congress · 88 episodes here · loc.gov

    The Library of Congress states: “The Library makes the sound recordings in the National Jukebox available pursuant to permission from the rightsholders. Under the Music Modernization Act, many of these recordings will begin entering into the public domain on January 1, 2022, when all recordings published prior to 1923 will enter the public domain and will be free to use and reuse. Recordings published between 1923 and 1946 are then protected for 100 years, and recordings published between 1947 and 1956 are protected for 110 years. In addition, some of the items in the Jukebox, such as the Victrola Book of the Opera, are”

From the Library of Congress (loc.gov), with its rights statement.

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