Dixon' approached Drake and asked him to put ' Dixie' on the map. In the film, Ludwig Von Drake claims he wrote the song when traveling below the Mason–Dixon line.

'Charleston Charlie' begins with the Betty Boop-esque lyric 'Boop boop be doop'. The subject of both songs is a male college student whom the singer desires. 'Charleston Charlie' 'Charleston Charlie', performed by Betty Boopie Doop ( Gloria Wood), makes direct reference to the singing style exemplified by Helen Kane in her flapper era iconic song ' He's So Unusual', which was co-written by the Sherman Brothers' Tin Pan Alley songwriting father, Al Sherman in 1929. During the song, a variety of stop-motion animated vegetables with faces appear and dance to the song. In the course of the film's narration, Von Drake claims to have invented ragtime music and, specifically, this song. 'The Rutabaga Rag,' performed by Paul Frees as Ludwig Von Drake, was not written as a parody of ragtime, but rather as an authentic ragtime song. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Host Ludwig Von Drake invites his audience into his mansion where he tells all about popular music through the years, introducing several songs illustrated with stop-motion photography. The Shermans also co-wrote the screenplay but are not credited for this. It features songs that were written by the Sherman Brothers, with music arrangements by Tutti Camarata. Tolokonnikova, whose recent performance piece Putin’s Ashes earned her a fresh arrest warrant in Russia, staged a 2019 performance that combined environmentalism with anti-capitalism, engaging imperialist aesthetics in finely made red and gold velvet slogan banners and literary ecofeminism in its wintry forest location.A Symposium on Popular Songs is a special cartoon featurette made by Walt Disney Productions in 1962. It’s both fascinating and horrifying to see it in its original printed form, and to realize its message is even more timely now, decades and generations later. Kruger’s trademark pre-Supreme black, white, red, newsprint and based san serif defined the era for typophiles, feminists, and political activists along with further elevating street art-infused visual language. The show fittingly opens with a blazing juxtaposition of Barbara Kruger’s iconic Your Body is a Battleground poster (first designed for the 1989 pro-choice rally in Washington D.C.), installed facing Ешь Богатых (Eat the Rich) and We Need a New Earth by Pussy Riot / Nadya Tolokonnikova. Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989, original poster, in Visual Language: The Art of Protest at Subliminal Projects (Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers)

Betty boop poster