{"product_id":"my-old-kentucky-home-the-astonishing-life-and-reckoning-of-an-iconic-american-song-paperback","title":"My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Bingham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home.\" So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions and ultimately was enshrined as the Kentucky Derby's sonic centerpiece--a popular selling point for Kentucky tourism. Emily Bingham's masterful decoding of Stephen Foster's 1853 ballad reveals that the song was always about slavery and how white Americans wanted to remember it. Acknowledging her own entanglement in this legacy, Bingham takes readers on the journey of a melody, from its inception by a white northerner, to its enormous success on the blackface circuit, in recordings by Al Jolson and Bing Crosby, and on the pages of Margaret Mitchell's \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, to its countless screen appearances, including Shirley Temple movies, \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor almost two centuries, \"My Old Kentucky Home\" has never been just a song--it continues to be a resonant, changing emblem of America's original sin, whose blood-drenched shadow haunts us still. \u003ci\u003eMy Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the tune's hidden history, lodged in the nation's cultural DNA, and ends with a startling solution for what to do with this artifact of race and slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEmily Bingham\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eIrrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMordecai: An Early American Family\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTravel and Leisure, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue, Ohio Valley History, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Journal of Southern History, Newsweek, \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53557769797939,"sku":"9781985901315","price":45.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/cUAnlCInXl9781985901315.webp?v=1782994817","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/my-old-kentucky-home-the-astonishing-life-and-reckoning-of-an-iconic-american-song-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}