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"Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1860. [1] Ken Emerson, author of the book Doo-Dah! (1998), indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by a servant in the home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh.
This is a list of songs that either originated in blackface minstrelsy or are otherwise closely associated with that tradition. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known.
[1] [a] In total, the song contains 118 [2] [3] or 119 [4] [5] [b] references to historical people, places, events, and phenomena. [6] The idea for creating a song chronicling news events and personalities originally came to Joel from a conversation he had with Sean Lennon , wherein Lennon claimed that nothing of note happened in the news ...
The use of songs as a narrative and a tool to convey an important message continued into the 20th century with Black Americans using their voices to help their fight for freedom and equality.
"Cotton-Eyed Joe" (also known as "Cotton-Eye Joe") (Roud 942) is a traditional American country folk song popular at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. The song is mostly identified with the 1994 Rednex version, which became popular
Taylor Swift Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift wrote a song called “The Black Dog” for The Tortured Poets Department, which fans think has a deep-seated ...
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In other old versions of the song, the partridge we all know and love is replaced with a "very pretty peacock upon a pear tree." There's also a Scottish version that gifts "an Arabian baboon."