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

by Bingham, Emily, author.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. My old Kentucky home.

Slavery -- Kentucky -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.

Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.

African Americans in popular culture.

Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

9780525520795 (hardcover) :

0525520791 (hardcover) :

xx, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"In My Old Kentucky Home, Emily Bingham explores the long, strange journey of what has come to be seen by some as an American anthem, an integral part of our folklore, culture, customs, foundation--a living symbol of a happy past. But My Old Kentucky Home was never just a song. It was always a song about slavery with the real Kentucky home inhabited by the enslaved and shot through with violence, despair, and degradation. Bingham traces the song's history and permutations from its decades of performances across the continent, entering the bloodstream of American life through its twenty-first-century reassessment. It is a song that has been repeated and taught and passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation's fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion--a revelation of the country's evolving self and a resonant changing emblem of America's original sin, whose blood-drenched shadow haunts us still."-- Publisher.

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