In this Conversation @Graham, we explore how communities in U.S. history have crafted distinctive bodies of song to assert a particular worldview, to preserve ancestral heritage, to project a social stance, and to claim political enfranchisement.
The conversation previews musicologist Annie Janeiro Randall’s forthcoming course examining Shaker hymns, African American spirituals, the Shoshone Ghost Dance, Sacred Harp singing, and songs of the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements.
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