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"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 worldwide.
"Cotton Eye Joe" is a song by the Swedish Eurodance group Rednex, released in August 1994 by Jive and Zomba as the lead single from their debut studio album, Sex & Violins (1995). Based on the traditional American folk song " Cotton-Eyed Joe ", it blends the group's Eurodance style with traditional American instruments like the banjo [ 5 ] and ...
The book directly challenged the long-held conclusions that American slavery was unprofitable, a moribund institution, inefficient, and extremely harsh for the typical slave. [2] The authors proposed that slavery before the Civil War was economically efficient, especially in the case of the South, which grew commodity crops such as cotton ...
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. Cockrell, Dale (1997). Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World. Cambridge University Press. Lott, Eric (1993). Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509641-X. Mahar, William J. (1999).
The album was a commercial success, including the hit dance single "Cotton Eye Joe". For its US release, the album was retitled Cotton Eye Joe (Sex & Violins) and received new cover art – presumably due to the possible offensive nature of the original artwork, which depicted a person urinating into a chamber pot with the band members' faces.
British newspaper Lennox Herald noted that "Old Pop in an Oak" is a "similar sounding song" to their previous single, "Cotton Eye Joe". [2] A reviewer from Manila Standard described it as "techno-pop fun". [3] Pan-European magazine Music & Media viewed it as a "C&W/dance mixture". [4]
Cotton Eye Joe is not on the soundtrack of this film. . Cotton Eye Joe is a "pattern partner dance" which can be danced solo. More to come. Steve Pastor 19:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC) There is at least one web site that incorrectly states that a line dance is done to Cotton Eye Joe. The correct description of Cotton Eye Joe is a "spoke-line" dance.
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister.Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of Ontario.