My old Kentucky home : the astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song /
It is the state song of Kentucky, and is sung each May, before every Kentucky Derby, since 1930. Written by Stephen Foster nine years before the Civil War, "My Old Kentucky Home" became a national minstrel sensation. It was a lament by an enslaved man, sold by his master, who must say good...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Bingham, Emily
(Author) |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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