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Thread #107724   Message #2236183
Posted By: Goose Gander
14-Jan-08 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: German-American Music Hall Songs
Subject: RE: German-American Music Hall Songs
I have a few books with some American stage songs in faux-German dialect. Is this what you're looking for? The lyrical content is usually fairly deroguatory, with observations about bossy wives and henpecked husbands, small businessmen whose lives center around their little shops, etc. Like blacks and Irish, German immigrants were figures of fun on the nineteenth-century stage, though it seems few people are aware of this these days.