RaveChapter 16[A] thoughtful, self-aware, intensely moral history ... Covers a spectacular amount of ground ... Engrossing twists and turns come with every chapter of the book ... The tremendous range of My Old Kentucky Home might threaten to spin out of control were it not for the clear moral center drawing it all together. Here the stories of attempts by Black people to find some use for Foster’s song across time lend the book needed intricacy.