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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.
Way up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Winans, Robert B. (1985).
It is sung from the point of view of a black stevedore on a showboat, [6] [7] and is the most famous song from the show. The song is meant to be performed in a slow tempo; it is sung complete once in the musical's lengthy first scene by the stevedore "Joe" who travels with the boat, and, in the stage version, is heard four more times in brief ...
For instance, Old Kentucky Home, when removing the words "Darkie" to "People" now causes modern listeners to simply think it was a song for a white man yearning for the old Antebellum South, which does not in any way help the listener gain sympathy for the slaves or their emotions, as the original lyrics does.
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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.
Oh, and there's also the meaning of "The Black Dog" in English folklore (which Swifties are leaning into for obvious reasons that may or not have to do with Joe Alwyn being English):
Taylor Swift wrote a song called “The Black Dog” for The Tortured Poets Department, which fans think has a deep-seated meaning. “I just had a plan for Night 2. I kinda felt you’d be ...