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“Jingle Bells” began life as “The One Horse Open Sleigh,” published by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 and first publicly performed in a minstrel show in Boston that September, not as a church carol . Loc...
Scholarly research and multiple news outlets show that the song we now call “Jingle Bells” began life as “The One Horse Open Sleigh” and was performed on the minstrel stage in the mid-19th century — n...
Primary documentary evidence tying familiar Christmas songs to blackface minstrelsy appears in 19th‑century playbills and songsters that list performances and sheet‑music editions used by minstrel tro...
Scholarly research and contemporary reporting show that "Jingle Bells" entered the public sphere in the 1850s as "One Horse Open Sleigh" and was performed in minstrel contexts — including a documented...
Research shows “Jingle Bells” was written in the 1850s as a sleigh‑ride song (first published as “One Horse Open Sleigh” in 1857) and was tied into popular northern sleigh‑race culture and minstrel pe...
Research by theatre historian Kyna Hamill and subsequent reporting shows "Jingle Bells" (originally "The One Horse Open Sleigh," published 1857) was first attested on the minstrel stage in Boston and ...
James Lord Pierpont wrote the song first copyrighted as “The One Horse Open Sleigh” in 1857; historians disagree whether he composed it in Medford, Massachusetts (inspired by local sleigh races) or in...