| Back Home Again In Indiana |
Article Index for Back Home |
Website Links For Back |
Information AboutBack Home Again In Indiana |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA | |
| 1917 songs | |
| louis armstrong songs | |
| united states state songs | |
| indiana | |
| indiana culture | |
|
ORIGIN AND INFLUENCE The tune was introduced as a Tin Pan Alley pop-song of the time. It contains a musical quotation from the already well known ''On the Banks of the Wabash,'' as well as repetition of some key words and phrases from the lyrics of the latter: moonlight, candlelight, fields, new-mown hay, sycamores, and of course the Wabash river. In 1934, Joe Young, Jean Schwartz, and Joe Ager wrote '' In A Little Red Barn (on A Farm Down In Indiana) ,'' which not only incorporated all the same key words and phrases above, but whose chorus had the same harmonic structure as ''Indiana.'' In this respect it was a contrafact of the latter (see "A jazz standard" below).
|