{"product_id":"my-old-kentucky-home-9780525520795","title":"My Old Kentucky Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long journey of an American song, passed down from       generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between       history and warped illusion, revealing the country's ever evolving self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a white man, considered the father of American music, about a Black man being sold downriver, performed for decades by white men in blackface, and the song, an anthem of longing and pain, turned upside down and, over time, becoming a celebration of happy plantation life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the state song of Kentucky, a song that has inhabited hearts and memories, and in perpetual reprise, stands outside time; sung each May, before every Kentucky Derby, since 1930.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWritten by Stephen Foster nine years before the Civil War, “My Old Kentucky Home” made its way through the wartime years to its decades-long run as a national minstrel sensation for which it was writt","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525483340119,"sku":"9780525520795","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780525520795.jpg?v=1731860688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-old-kentucky-home-9780525520795","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}