Swanee River and All That
WONDER whether Swanee River, and the various elegies on Massa, and the works of Stephen Foster generally, have been a _ worth-while cultural influence on American development, Americans seem to find them an expression of some genuine national mood or.experience, but it is not quite clear just what, Certainly not negro life in the slavery period, but rather the workings of white imagination in the search for an attitude towards the negro. These ditties, I suppose, are the musical counterpart to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and that antislavery feeling which was probably more marked by generosity than by understanding. They did good work as the first cultural bridge between black and white; but they obscured for years the real artistic contributions of the negroan American writer says that the spirituals were not widely appreciated till the 1920’s-and made for that popular view, so infuriating to the intelligent negro, of his people as quaint and sub-medieval.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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158Swanee River and All That New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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