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Author Bingham, Emily, author.

Title My old Kentucky home : the astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song / Emily Bingham.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
©2022

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML410.F78 B55 2022    Available  ---
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: The forgetting -- 'Tis summer, the darkies are gay : Stephen Foster, Ethiopian song-writer -- Corn top's ripe : white men's music -- Little cabin floor : "Negro" minstrelsy -- 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.
Summary "A history of the popular song 'My Old Kentucky Home' and its impact on American culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. My old Kentucky home.
Slavery -- Kentucky -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Slavery.
Kentucky.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
United States.
Chronological Term To 1901
Subject African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans in popular culture.
Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject My old Kentucky home (Foster, Stephen Collins)
Slavery -- Songs and music.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Chronological Term To 1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Online version: Bingham, Emily. My old Kentucky home. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022 9780525520801 (DLC) 2021042233
ISBN 9780525520795 (hardcover)
0525520791 (hardcover)
9780525520801 (ebook)