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My Old Kentucky Home The Astonishing Life And Reckoning Of An Iconic American Song Emily Bingham

Name: My Old Kentucky Home The Astonishing Life And Reckoning Of An Iconic American Song Emily Bingham
SKU: BELL-43409630
Price: 31.00 USD
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Rating: 4.4 (22 reviews)

SKU: BELL-43409630

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My Old Kentucky Home The Astonishing Life And Reckoning Of An Iconic American Song Emily Bingham instant download after payment.

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

File Extension: MOBI

File size: 31.61 MB

Author: Emily Bingham

Language: English

Year: 2022

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My Old Kentucky Home The Astonishing Life And Reckoning Of An Iconic American Song Emily Bingham by Emily Bingham instant download after payment.

The long journey of an American song,passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country's ever evolving self.
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a white man, considered the father of American music, about a Black man being sold downriver, performed for decades by white men in blackface, and the song, an anthem of longing and pain, turned upside down and, over time, becoming a celebration of happy plantation life.
It is the state song of Kentucky, a song that has inhabited hearts and memories, and in perpetual reprise, stands outside time; sung each May, before every Kentucky Derby, since 1930.

Written by Stephen Foster nine years before the Civil War, “My Old Kentucky Home” made its way through the wartime years to its decades-long run as a national minstrel sensation for which it was...