In the late 1890s, Coon Songs were introduced by Ernest Hogan. He was a musician, dancer who worked in minstrel shows. Ernest produced a hit song,”All coons look alike to me,” which became the all-time successful coon song during that period. His song became the highlight of ragtime that made ragtime even more popular. Many black composers produced and wrote Coon songs to degrade their own race as much as white composers. This lead to more coon songs to be market, such as “Bully Song’ by Mary Irwin,(1896), “Hello, Ma Baby”(1899) by Arthur Collins, and “Oh! You Coon” by Ada Jones and Billy Murry(1908), The white audience were proud and very graciously toward the music.