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Song of the South

Hello and welcome to Dream With Mind And Heart: A Podcast for Every Disney Movie Ever! In this project, your hosts, Ryan Silberstein and Meagan Bojarski will be covering every theatrically released feature-length film from Walt Disney Studios.

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Song of the South Ryan Silberstein and Meagan Bojarski

In this episode, we look at the problematic existence and legacy of Song of the South.

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Thanks also to Rosalie Kicks for our artwork, The Honey Badgers for our theme song, and Tessa Swehla for editing this episode!

Primary Works Consulted:

  • Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries that Inspired the Golden Age of Animation by Reid Mitenbuler

  • The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt

  • The Walt Disney Film Archives: The Animated Movies 1921-1968, edited by Daniel Kothenschulte

  • Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas

  • The Disney Films (4th edition) by Leonard Maltin

  • Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South by Jason Sperb

  • You Must Remember This podcast, “Six Degrees of Song of the South” by Karina Longworth