Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

“It was from the outset a blackface minstrel tune, entertainment built on slavery and the trade in human beings.”

By Emily Bingham | May 16, 2022

Singer Sam Lee on the Transformative Experience of Creating Songs in Collaboration With Nightingales

Singer Sam Lee on the Transformative Experience of Creating Songs in Collaboration With Nightingales

On the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | May 16, 2022

Bono has finally done it. He’s written his memoir. And it’s going to be published.

Bono has finally done it. He’s written his memoir. And it’s going to be published.

By Jonny Diamond | May 10, 2022

Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

Emily Bingham on the Racist History of a Beloved American Song

By Emily Bingham | May 9, 2022

“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape—external or internal.”

By Yiyun Li | May 3, 2022

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

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Rosalyn Story on Discovering Jones' Personal Scrapbook

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The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen’s October 1973 Resurrection in the Sinai Desert

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Jason Moran on What It Means to Play the Room

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