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My old Kentucky home : the astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song
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My old Kentucky home : the astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song / Emily Bingham.
ISBN
9780525520795
0525520791
9780525520801
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
xx, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Summary
"A history of the popular song 'My Old Kentucky Home' and its impact on American culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Bingham, Emily. My old Kentucky home. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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