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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 goodbye to his family and cherished birthplace, with hints of the brutality to come. Bingham explores the history, from decades of performances through its twenty-first-century reassessment.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.