My old Kentucky Home : : the Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
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Preface: The forgetting -- 'Tis summer, the darkies are gay : Stephen Foster, Ethiopian song-writer -- The corn top's ripe : white men's music -- The little cabin floor : "Negro" minstrelsy -- The sun shines bright : white reunification -- To tote the weary load : the burden of black uplift -- Where all was delight : creating the Old Kentucky home -- We will sing one song : fostering an American consensus -- Wherever the darky may go : the D-word as destiny -- They sing no more : black power and back to Bardstown -- Weep no more : a sonic monument -- Coda: My old Kentucky HOME.
"A history of the popular song 'My Old Kentucky Home' and its impact on American culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: xx, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525520795
0525520791
SUBJECTS
Foster, Stephen Collins, -- 1826-1864.
Slavery -- Kentucky -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
African Americans in popular culture.
Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.