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... sang across the land and across the sea , before Queen and Kaiser , in Scotland and Ireland , Holland and Switzerland . Seven years they sang , and brought back a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to found Fisk University . Since their ...
... sang across the land and across the sea , before Queen and Kaiser , in Scotland and Ireland , Holland and Switzerland . Seven years they sang , and brought back a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to found Fisk University . Since their ...
Page 203
... sang most lustily soon became strawboss . One man set the tune , and sang whatever sentiments lay closest to his heart . He would sing about steamboats , fast trains , “ contrairy " mules , cruel overseers . If he had no home , he sang ...
... sang most lustily soon became strawboss . One man set the tune , and sang whatever sentiments lay closest to his heart . He would sing about steamboats , fast trains , “ contrairy " mules , cruel overseers . If he had no home , he sang ...
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... sang and they clapped and stomped their feet and sang with their whole bodies . They had a beat , a powerful beat , a rhythm we held on to from slavery days , and their music was so strong and ex- pressive it used to bring the tears to ...
... sang and they clapped and stomped their feet and sang with their whole bodies . They had a beat , a powerful beat , a rhythm we held on to from slavery days , and their music was so strong and ex- pressive it used to bring the tears to ...
Contents
THOMAS EDWARD BOWDICH From Mission from Cape | 8 |
Black Singers and Instrumentalists | 27 |
ARTHUR LITTLE | 29 |
Copyright | |
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