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Harry Burleigh and Cultural Appropriation – Take Two August 26, 2019 by Joseph Horowitz The annals of the Harlem Renaissance include heated debate over the practice of turning African-American spirituals into concert songs. Zora Neale Hurston Hurston heard concert spirituals “squeezing all of the rich black juice out of the songs,” a “flight from blackness,” a […]
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