Klarinet Archive - Posting 000852.txt from 2003/06

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Le Petit Negre
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:52:10 -0400

Anne Bell wrote:

I'm less certain (though someone will probably have more information)
that "le petit negre" was offensive in nature.

There is an interesting writeup about the cakewalk & related music
(including "Le Petit Negre" - clearly Debussy was interested in the
music, not the politics) at:
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3cake1.htm

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