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Concerning the singing of spirituals today

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A spare piece "to be used in an emergency" with Hughes's weekly "Defender" column, discussing the nature of performing spirituals and citing from W. E. B. Du Bois's description thereof in "the most beautiful pages ever written about music in our country," in a chapter of "Souls of Black Folk."
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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Keywords

  1. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868 1963
  2. Souls Of Black Folk
  3. Spirituals (Songs)

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