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Eighth annual Mandel Lecture in the Humanities Series
Dr. Daphne Brooks discussed protest music in America and the struggle for Black freedom at the eighth annual Mandel Lectures in the Humanities Series at Brandeis University. Brooks spoke on the work and legacy of two former slaves and how their music impacted future artists.
“By following the creative, the experimental, and the intellectual intimacies of our 19th century forebears, Wiggins and Sheppard … [unsettle and undo] the very economy of the protest music tradition,” said Brooks.
Thomas Wiggins, also known as “Blind Tom,” was a 19th century piano prodigy whose music and legacy brings up new questions about how slaves documented their subjugation, according to Brooks, especially since Wiggins did not have any writings of his own. Ella Sheppard, who was also a slave, had a remarkable influence that extended well beyond her lifetime, similar to Wiggins, Brooks explains, saying that the talents and contribut
Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
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Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
These songs the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death and dignity.
Lillian Richter’s “Spirituals” (circa 1935-43).Credit.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library
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Ten years ago, I worked as a researcher, conducting oral-history interviews for a project with the Weeksville Heritage Center. Weeksville is an extraordinary museum in central Brooklyn dedicated to the history of the free Black community that was founded there in 1838, when a Black stevedore named James Weeks first purchased the property. This occurred eleven years after Emancipation in New York, as Black residents organiz
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The famed Jubilee Singers of Fisk University rehearse May 10, 1952, for an upcoming concert.
Photo: Robert C. Holt Jr., The Tennessean, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
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Steal away, steal away home, I hain t got long to stay here.”
In the mid-19th century, you’d hear those words echoing across the fields of Oklahoma, as Wallace Willis and other slaves sang while they worked in the state’s Indian Territory.
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