The religious hymn "This Little Light of Mine" has often been referred to as having originated in the era of American slavery. For instance, on Sept. 26, 1998, the Orlando Sentinel published that the ...

Christopher Lynch works at the Center for American Music in the University of Pittsburgh Library System where the Foster Hall Collection is housed. Opinions expressed in this article are his own.

MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song By Emily Bingham It is an old, old song, written in a discredited age and made infamous in blackface, but every ...

In the pandemic spring of 2020, with most of the state shuttered, musician Ben Sollee sat alone in Churchill’s Downs infield with his signature cello and played “My Old Kentucky Home.” The subsequent ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...

An old-fashioned steam calliope designed by luminaries in the worlds of art and jazz is on display at the National Sculpture Garden. A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of ...