Tales of ritual magic & mischief – CAW
Feb 28th, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Archived ArticlesOut of the disarray of the Antebellum South shuffled that “venerable old darkey,” Uncle Remus – a slave caricature created by white folklorist Joel Chandler Harris in 1879 and revitalized by Walt Disney in 1946. With a G-rated grin and a song of “zip-a-dee-doo-dah,” Uncle Remus cheerily whitewashed a rich, raucous oral tradition of Southern [...]
