{"id":152,"date":"2018-06-28T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=152"},"modified":"2023-05-10T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:54:17","slug":"at-a-georgia-camp-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/at-a-georgia-camp-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"At a Georgia Camp Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
[Warning: Derogatory racial terms. It is presented in its original form for the sake of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
words and music by Kerry Mills (Frederick A. Mills), 1897<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A great cakewalk song. From the book America’s Songs II: “Frederick Allen Mills was a classically trained performer and head of the violin department at the University of Michigan School of Music. When this white composer began to write “coon songs” under the name of Kerry Mills, he soon became convinced that they were insulting to black people. He set out to write songs that were syncopated but portrayed African Americans in less cartoonish ways. For “At a Georgia Camp Meeting,” he borrowed his musical theme from a Civil War song, “Our Boys Will Shine Tonight,” and added a lyric about a religious gathering in the South when he realized he had a hit on his hands.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n