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Hearing the Americas
Sheet music cover for "The Irish Cake Walk, Comic Song," words and music by Geo. M. Cohan, featuring an illustrated elderly man in patterned vest holding up a decorated cake, published by George L. Spaulding, New York.

Sheet music for "Irish Cake Walk"

Sheet music

Title

Sheet music for "Irish Cake Walk"

Description

This sheet music for the song "Irish Cake Walk" illustrates the "Stage Irishman," a stereotypical image of Irish-American recordings that had roots on the English stage centuries before due to anti-Irish fears.

Date

1898

Source

Library of Congress American Folklife Center,
Ethnic recordings in America: a neglected heritage

Type

Sheet music
This sheet music for the song "Irish Cake Walk" illustrates the "Stage Irishman," a stereotypical image of Irish-American recordings that had roots on the English stage centuries before due to anti-Irish fears.