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My Old Kentucky Home
The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
- 352 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
- Also by Emily Bingham
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!
- Preface: The Forgetting
- 1. ’tis Summer, The Darkies Are Gay: Stephen Foster, Ethiopian Songwriter
- 2. The Corn Top’s Ripe: White Men’s Music
- 3. The Little Cabin Floor: “Negro” Minstrelsy
- 4. The Sun Shines Bright: White Reunification
- 5. To Tote The Weary Load: The Burden of Black Uplift
- 6. Where All Was Delight: Creating the Old Kentucky Home
- 7. We Will Sing One Song: Fostering an American Consensus
- 8. Wherever The Darky May Go: The D-Word as Destiny
- 9. They Sing No More: Black Power and Back to Bardstown
- 10. Weep No More: A Sonic Monument
- Coda: My Old Kentucky Home
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration Credits
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