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Photo credit: Shahar Azran. This year you’ve curated a program with a social focus on Negro spirituals. In light of current events, how have these spirituals taken on a renewed sense of ...
Damian stunned everyone, including Thomas, by singing the original spirituals. In hindsight, it makes perfect sense, of course, and Thomas decided that he would perform them that way from then on ...
Over the weekend, after the local choir the Thirteen gave its Friday performance of “The New American Songbook” at Trinity ... a pair of lushly arranged spirituals, a short work by Caroline ...
The exhibit is set up in chronological order. The first room is sparse with simple objects like an old army bugle, lyrics for Negro spirituals, an opera gown, and hymnals, such as a bound copy of ...
The original Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced "slave songs" to the world in 1871 and were instrumental in preserving the unique American musical tradition of Negro spirituals. "The Fisk Jubilee ...
One of the examples, a book published in 1843 titled “Slavery, as it Relates to the Negro, or African Race ... Mississippi Delta as a combination of spirituals, work songs and chants created ...
In a new book, “Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves” she concludes that after decades of social and political progress for women, the patriarchy has ...
One of the examples, a book published in 1843 titled “Slavery, as it Relates to the Negro, or African Race," by Josiah Priest ... which was created in the Mississippi Delta was a combination of ...
One of the Lehigh Valley’s most beloved literary events is back. The 63rd Annual Used Book Fair, hosted by the AAUW Bethlehem Branch, is popping up once again. There is expected to be thousands ...