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"Old Plantation Play Song", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881. Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore collected from Southern black Americans.
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at The Atlanta Constitution.
Uncle Remus and His Friends. Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads. With Sketches of Negro Character with illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost, 1892; Told by Uncle Remus. New Stories of the Old Plantation with illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost & J. Condé and line drawings after half-tones by Frank Verbeck, 1905
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Br'er Rabbit's dream, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881. The Br'er Rabbit stories can be traced back to trickster figures in Africa, particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa. [4]
The Uncle Remus film, combining live action and animation and featuring "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," premiered to criticism and protests. Disney's most controversial movie, 'Song of the South,' opened in ...
Many of these harmful characters were created for minstrel shows, the most popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1800s. "Minstrel show entertainment was a kind of precursor to ...
In 1881, journalist, fiction writer and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris published Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, a collection of animal stories, songs and folklore collected from southern black Americans, told in a Deep South Negro dialect.